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Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1847-10-06

Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1847-10-06 page 1

WEEKLY T 0 STAr 1171 VOLUME XXXVIII. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1847. NUMBER 6. PUHLISIIKD KVKIIY WKIllSKMDAY MOIiSIN(i, 5Y WILLIAM U. THRALL. Office ia tho Journal linililiiig, Mouth-rant comer of High street ttnil Sugar alley. ' T 1. RMS: Timrr. Dni.r.An vr.ti annum, which may bo discharged by thn payment ot' Two lloi.i.Ait in advance, and free of pottnw, or of per centime to Agents or 'ol lectors. The Journal in also published daily nml T ri-Woekly du-riiivr tlio year ; Daily, per annum. 7 ; Tri -Weekly, jsl. WUDNENUAY J:VKNINC;,HcptRmber,lN4T. The Mailt t Oh ! The Mulls. Wo have received a letter from a friend in Wast ford, Union county, complaining that the Hln.lv Journal does not rench its subscribers tit Hint place until ono week from Ihe day of publication and urging upon us to have the evil remedied. Tin- delay, our correspondent think", if mostly in the Post Office " some-where! and suggests as nn expedient a change in the direction. It aliull be made. Where such irreguluri-tie occur, we ore desirous of being advised thereof, in order that if possible a remedy may be applied and also that we ma) have the opportunity to assure our patrons that ai.w avs, and vniikk all cihcumstamckb, our papers are promptly made up, and deposited in the Font Olliee. From this rule we admit of no departure ; and if our patrons fail to receive their papers, wc can always assure them that the fault in not with us. MiKiiF.nm iHscHAiioF.it. George Dunn, who wan convicted of the murder of James Anderson, at Pitts-! burgh, in November, 14, and sentenced to be exc-1 ctil-'d, was disuhurged on ttie 23d instant, by the Su-, preme Court on a writ of error. It docs not appear from the record that Dunn was brought into court, and tho usual question asked, " whether ho had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him," &3. Other informalities also ap-! peared, mid for these he was discharged. Thus on mere technicalities a murderer was set free ! He had been three years in jail, and before G o'clock of the day lie was discharged he was taken to the watch house o much intoxicated that he could nut take care of himself. Nkw Covsterfkit. A new counterfeit three dollar note on the Unuk of Sandusky, has made its appearance. It is signed II. Higgin, President, nnd W. W. Wetherell, Cashier, dated October 1st, H4 I, let-ter A, payable to O. Smith. Their general appearance is well calculated to deceive, and the signatures extremely well done; the general appearance rather lighter than the genuine. No notes have been issued by this bank, of a date since IHI2, and none payable to O. Smith. Sliiiuls Acciot:tr. We regret very much to state (says the Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday morning) tint our esteemed fellow citizen, Wji K. Bonn was very seriously injured yesterday by the falling of a par on board the steamer Robert Morr's. In its descent it struck him down, breaking botti legs the one above, the other below the knee. He was also much bruised about the head and shoulders ! nnd fears are entertained that his spin" is seriously injured. Mr. It. was abuiit leaving with a daughter for the east; and was awaiting his baggigo when tho accident occurred. ObetMi Hooks." Under this head the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle has some very pointed and just remark in reference to a certain book which is to bo noticed u in the advertising cdIumiiih of the daily papers of that city," and the circulation of which he considers as scattering moral pestilence among those who may rend the hook. The tit. L'jui JVrw Era has an article upon the same subject; and submits thn question, whether respecta ble papers which have admitted the advertisement of this book, should not' look to the nutter, and find whether they are not advertising n contraband article." The advertisement of t!m book referred to is not confined to one or two cities it may be met in one half the p ipers, city and country, in the Stale of Ohio at the present time. It is advertised daily in this city, and openly offered for sale. Tiie putative author of the book is now under indictment in New York, for it publication and his other half is under a $lo,tii)tl bond, for shameful offences against the law. But notwithstanding all this, we much query whether the Chronicle has not more effectually advkhtisi.u the work, thin any other press in Cincinnati whether his plain spoken condemnation of the work, will not bring m to purchasers than nil tin paidadvertiic-ini-Fits in the City, with all their specious deceptive ness. Mew Hooks. "ATi.r IJ-ioK ot- N Aim ti. l'im.oopiiv. For the Use of Hi-hoots and Colleges. Containing the most recent discoveries and farts compiled from the best authorities." Ily Joiix Wn.i.ni Ihnrin, M. I). Professor of Chemistry in the University of New York. Published by Harper and Rrothers, It 17, and lor sale by J. R. Scruggs, Columbus. Dmr.t tioks ioit lsvi(.HtAi inu Ann Pitoi.ojmisr. Luis; or, The Inmlid's Oracle. Containing peptic precepts, pointing nut ngr'-euble and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the net ion of the stomach and bowels. Ily XV m. Kirciimn, M. D. From the sixth London edition ; revised and improved by T. S. RwmK.rr, licentiate in medicine and surgery, fellow of the New York Medical and Philosopbie.il Society." Published by Harper A. Brothers, 1I7 fur sale by 1. N. Whiting V Huntington ' Shi.r mi s or Nati iiu, Huroitv." "Talks ii Vi:kh:." Th ire pleasant Utile vol- uuies for children by M HowiTr. Published by Harper A, Rrother and tor sale by Whiting & Hunt-inglnn.,l Srnuv of the B vTTi.r. or W vthui.oo." By Rev, G. II. (ti.tciu, M A. Author of the Hutory of Hie Jlihle, Vc. Revised by the Duke of Wellington. The second and finishing part of this Story," pub-Iisbed by the Harpers, is for salo at the llookstoro of I. N. Whiting V lluiitingtou. " Loi is Til k Foi itTt.KN ru, Jmlthf Court of Frunrt in (As Ili'A Cfiiury." Uy Miss Pardoo. This work to which wa referred more at large a few dys since, is to be comoleled in six parts. Part tilth is received at the Hookstore of Whiting A Huntington. Harper's " Pn rom ii. Hi-'Touv or Lsoi.imi toj bo completed in uhoul 4D numbers. The No 'J, bring-1 ing down tho History U A. I). HmI, is received by Messrs. Whiting and llnntiugloii. llarors' Ni.w Ii.i.i'stratv.m Jor.rin s." A new and very valuable translation, by Rev. II Thah.i., D. I)., with notes, explanatory essays, tVc, by Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Oregon, Part third of this work is received by Messrs Whiting A Huntington. " Rusm.i.i., ,1 Tulnf tht lltian f Charhs .' Hy G. P. R. Jahi. Author of Tho Castle of F.ru-tein,' 'Tin Step Mother,' Vo. A cheap edition, uniform with Harpers' Library of Select Novels price if5 cents for sate by Whiting & Huntington. Thk I'tii.itv anu Sritvur.s or tiik UniTrn 8 tat: Mn.ir uiv ArimiMv; with notices of some of its graduates fallen in Mexico. An Address delivered June IS, M7, at West Point, by Kuh aiiii D. M Am:i.i, of ('tncinnnti." We are indebted to Messrs. Whiting A Huntington fur a copy ol tliis Address, which cannot fail to awaken the lively interest of the reader in behilf of " The Academy." While the Art of War is practiced which we suppose must : be the case until the niture of man is changed institutions of this sort will prove of incalculable silvan-tnge to those- nations which foster tlicni- Hut Mr, Mansfield shows that it is not the Art of War alone winch is ar'pnred at "The Point." On tho contrary, the studies pursued and exercises practised there, ore eminently calculated to ipialily the students for au active participation in any of the pursuits of life. The Address teems with interest in the several department of History, Philosophy, and Iliography. "Til a Ohio Hahuomst: A cut Ire lion of Psulm and Hymn tunes, from the best Authors, to which is added a mipplcment of Tempeiniice Songs. Hy Al.- KKtMirn Ai'i.n-V The Author some time since left upon our table a copy of this work ; and we regret to pay our knowledge of the science of Music is so liiu ited as to dismialify us for forming nn opinion as to ill merits. The author did, however, advance tunny cogent arguments in its behalf, which to us were perfectly overwhelming nnd ho seemed to have any ipianlity in store for those not so readily sntislied as ourselves. We will loan the book tn any one ualift-t'd, who will promise to give it a inir trial. I)r.rnTtni or Nkw Out r ai A rrentleiimn writes that he dined at the St. Chailes, with but one other person at tho table. ltiifticntioiu Tho editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, as is his wont, has been rusticating ; and in his rumbles it would seem he has paid a visit lo our city. Wc know not how he will excuse himself from the charge which we here prefer against htm, of having failed to do himself the justice and ourself the pleasure of a call at our sanctum, lie should have found a seat made comfortable by a hearty welcome. When next hu visits the capital, we look for a correction of tho omission. Meanwhile, we appropriate for the u.10 of our readers the following " bird's-eyo view " of the places through which he passed : The Interior nnd it Towns. The editor was absent last week, on a little tour through the interior. Everything there bears the air of a vigorous but quiet prosperity. The crop of corn is very heavy, and unless the early frosts in jure it n some of the northern counties it will be enormous. The full grass is fresh and abundant. Indeed the fo-Iiu;e of autumn is rarely so green ntthis season. Tho "sere and yellow leaf" in just beginning to appear, although when the rains have ceased their effect, the trees will soon begin to spread the earth with their own gaudy dress. It is sometimes said, that Railroads injure small towns but we have never seen au instance of it. Xenia is improving; and Springfield is, ut present, improving very fast. Many substantial brick buildings nro being erected in the last place ; and a mora beautiful town,aud country about it, cannot be found. Comimdus is rather an anomaly. It increases about as fast ns Dayton, without apparently the came cause. The State Institutions, now on a very large scale, doubtless greatly add to its prosperity. In addition to tins, there is a very rich country around it, and soma manufacturing, lint, wo imagine, that Columbus must have some enterprising nnd sagacious men in it. Alter all, it is the lending minds in a place, which have moat to do with its fortune. It' they lire active, iudustriouH, and sagacious, they will give the town a lead over others. If, on Ihe contrary, they are dull and sluggish, the town will grow but slowly. We should cull Columbus tho Villa ol Churches, to look at it. There were, we think, no less than fice building and unfinished. Th-ro are there two Presbyterian, two Methodist, two Episcopalian, a German Reformer, German Lutheran, German Rationalist, a Catholic, Raptist, Universalis!, Welch, and Colored Churches in nil, some fourteen or (ifteen a much larger number, in proportion' to the inhabitants, than Cincinnati has. There is ono thing there, tlio good people of Ohio ought to be ashamed of, and that is their miserable, dirty, inconvenient, nnd contemptible State House. Some party papers have the fully Ut exclaim, extravagance," when some liberally disposed Legislature seems inclined to build a new one. The member who, after thjs, shall vote against a Slate House appropriation, should be obliged to go barefooted home, and never wear shoes again. It is contemptible to see our Legislature Biieaking into such a shanty ! It will be a very popular move to build a new one. We let them know tlttt in advance. i nti: t.K v i i.i.k is surrounded by one of the richest countries in the world, but it grows slowly. There is not much business, except mere country trade. Ciiii.mcotii e the ancient capital of the State-enjoys a sort of dignified rase. It grows slowly, and is prosperous in its circumstances, but it seems to ha no very remarkable enterprise. It has a laruo country trade, but little manufacturing. Of late years, two or three Iron Fmmdericit have sprung up, and do a good business. They get good coal at Chillicothe, about as cheap as in Cincinnati. And they might have Iron as cheap. The price of Cotton would be about the snme. With these advantages, the business of Iron mid Cotton manufacturing, might be curried on there very well. Poitisnoi rii is well situated, but grown slowly. The nnd location of the Canal there, lias proved a great injury to the place. Oo the river, we see every town has its Packet Hoat; and tins is a great benefit to tho.u. The river country is rapidly improving. In time, the hanks of the Ohio will be u continuous garden, interspersed with country seats. Pr.Ai nr.. Some of the Illinois papers are boasting of Peaches 11 and ll inches in circumference. At the last floriculture Fair in this city, specimens of ibis fruit were exhibited Ut inches in circumference. Rut the largest peach is by no means the hint peach. Since the above was in type, we have louud Ihe Rochester American bragging about a peach tf inches in circumference. Ctneinmai (Jazttte. Hpenking of peaches did the Gazette notice that at the late Fair of the Columbus Horticulture Society, Peaches were exhibited measuring over a foot in cir. ciimfereticc, and weighing II ounces? The world his been challenged to produce their eipial, Whnt duill it urofit us I When the ancient Aztecs were wandering, many a long ceoiury ug', over the mountain district. of north-wcslcrn Mexico, pausing here ami there to build cities only to be impelled by au inexorable fate to divert them in quest of new sites ill some more southerly clime, they were told or tint is the legend by their Seers, who interpreted the will of their tied Mexitli, to expect a permanent home and found a durable empire on the spot where they should liml an eale sitting on a nopal devouring a serpent. All th-'se they found in the vale of .leieo; there they built their city ; ond there, in that beautiful nook, in a mountain elysnuu, far above the earth, a utile and a half in the air, so-questred from the worl l, and unknown to the world, grew up the barbaric, but magnificent, Empire of the Montezuma, nnd endured until it was broken by the sivord ami trodden under tho foot of the Spaniard. When the descendants of Ihe cotumerors shook oil' the yoke of d' pendente, they chose the old emblem of the A.tecs the eagle and the serpent as the anus of their Republic, perhaps expecting for it the same pow- r nnd perpetuity which luu tieeu vamiy promncii uy the Indian Empire. Little did they dream ot a lutiire day when another Eagle, from the north, should swoop into their valley anil roll their own lord ot Uie nopal oi his prey. That day, however, has arrived. Theen-gb-s of the two Republics liuve tioiL'ltt together in the sacred valley ; Ihe American eagle Ins prevailed over the Mexican eagle; and now the former exults over Ins prize, which is, alter all, a bunch of thorns and a serpent ! Thenc are, indeed, likely to prove nil the spoils which are to reward us for all our Mexican victories, won at (he price of so much treasure and so much blood. We uiukc pence ; we acquire Mexican teintory, which we know not How to die pone of without a quarrel among ourselves; a quarrel winch threatens Ihe greatest danger lo the Republic. There is the dilliiulty whoso thorns already wound us; then is the serpent uhieh may tiling us. It required hi tic political wisdom to bring about the wur with Mexico- it will demand all the wiodoin thai belongs to the best statesmen of the country lo contrive a peace that shall be equally suto and honorable. The perpetuity of the Aztec conquest was the promise only of a pagan god, or the bilse prophets who palter to us in a double sense. It finished from tho hands o the Atecs; it declines in those of the Mex icans; in ours, the period ol possession could only no n few brief ye art ol contention, and peril Hps cunvul-siuti. ,urlk .ImtfirriH. For the Ohio State Journal. Written on icimri.o'ite; the Indication of the Chapel qf the Ohio Lunatic Ur'um. DX KATK CAKOL. Lightly ! trend lightly ! 'tis the house of prayer ; Yet thru' no dun church nicla, the sunbeam (bids its ray ; .No mnnivo pillars bathed in burning cold are thern, Like tin- twilight's robe of criui-t n, folding in ihe dny. Through lolty arches doth no organ's .leep notes roll, Like tho song of seraph's sweeping o'er the soul. Lightly! tread lightly! 'lis the house of prayer; Vet o'nr its snowy crest rolls many a vacant eye. What ntrauc,o wild group nre gathered ttiero ( hoeti soiii fair victim on yon niter lie f TIiono holy ititm of (iod no lovclv lorui lii'h stole, By their bands shall no crimson lilu blond roll. Litibily ! tread lightly ! 'tis the house of prayer lint lie wIhim? misxiou unto earth was love, The (miner of His mercy still waves there, Yet those wild spirits scud no cit't above, for tint soiiI'k ruli.mt J i 1 1 1 hath fors;iken her trust, And rauivn't proud quccu lies shrouded in dust. Lightly! tread lightly ! 'tis the house of prayer; A nil Mutiny hojies wi re throned on iinny a brow, Where now' wave masses of dudioveib-u bair. now, Why come that strange, wild hand iKinciith those portals Willi atiu'uixh 'd treid and sitint of despair. Come they to breuttic ono current of celestial airt Ah ! yes, for them does that soft gush of music thrill For them do ihoic low tones of prayer umo, Like muliiiirlit's orifoti when all is utill, '1'hrciidiug its far oil pathway to the skies; " (Mi ! Like it. Father, 'tis no h-tty boon for Ibee, Yet take the temple thut we dedicate to thee." Oh ! 1 have stood 'scath pjllar'd domes, at vesper hour. Where the soli liht a fnint, and ntirry radiancy hliecl, Where the low breath of prayer, like- a strange spell bod power, To bow tho clustering locks of many a fair young head. Yes! I hnvii seen tho youn, the bcautilnl, thu g:iy, Liko (lowers upprctai'u with slumber, bund to pray. Hut no! not there, not when a silvery halo shed '"Ei From rui'el brows, like lurhts from (leaven seemed beam-Not when tliu wings of seraph's in its radiance lov'd, Like silicon banners through the dun aiie (.treaioii'g Not then, not there, swept o'er my mhiI like chimin thrill, Thai seemed to wuko from lar mi' harps he still." ! And oh ! when need time, and when harvest !i;i1l have pass'd And the rainbow the lust tune Hfians the skv, W hen through earth's caverns rolls tlio triimpl blast, SuinmoiMiin her spirits to their lin;i (loom, on hi:;h, i Oh, holy tneri of (iod thu gift ye to your Saviour brought, ' I'roni 'niuUt that str.tiige, wild Iniitl, it shall be it n forgot. Cui.UMlits, U., .Sept. V.uth, I'll?. Suam. Potatoiis." This term is so generally I reproachful that the person or thing lo which it is applied is placed in the lowestattitude. Ruteven small potatoes should not be despised, as the following facts, which were related to us by one of our townsmen who derived most profit from the proceeding, fully illustrated. Some years ago a gentleman visiting a firm in Tolland, Connecticut, took from Ins pocket ubiiiu II intruder which somehow got in thereat home. It wai thrown out with a smile, and the farmer taking it in liii hand to look at it, a curious little boy of twelve nt his ei-bow linked what it was. " Oh, nothing but a potato, my hoy take and plant it, and you sinll have all ymi can raise from it till you are free." The lad look it, ami Die tanner thoug.it no more about it at that lime. I he boy, however, not despising small potatoes, carefully divided it into as many pieces as he could find eyes, and put them in the ground ; the product was carefully put aside in the full, and seed for several hills was obtained for the next spring. Tho product was all kept for seed until, in Ihe fourth year, the yield being good, the actual product was four hundred bushels ! The firmer, seeing the p.-uspeot that the potato tield would hy another year cover his whole farm, asked to he released fiom his promise. With the same calculation, prudence, mid industry, how many who are disposed to regard tho trilling things mi which fortunes are built as too small put a tins to receive Iheir attention would have been in independent circumstances if they had husbanded their small ndvnntngi'S ! Small putntors should not be despised, even though there be at lirst but a : i.t i iiii.l I'tirUmutilh Journal. Thk Nr.r Si'KAKr.ii. The late shameful results in Rhode Uluiid and Maine have not subverted the strong probability thai the W Iml's will have a umjority in the next Federal Mouse of RcprcNeniativc, though Ihey have decided that this majority inu-l lie small probably not more than three to six. hhould the Whigs of M iT) land behave ns badly as those if Maine have done, ihe House may be oxt, but that hardly poi ble. The election of Speaker is of some worth hm nn omen ; for no do not remember that a President has ever yet been elected of politic opposed to llmau of the Speaker of the House chosen the December previous. We tiust this important post Will nut U thrown away, now that thu W hig have only lo put forth au eltort and lake it. Among Ihe higs spoken of ill connection with tlio Speakership we have renin iked the names of Hon. Svtii ;L F. ViMos.nf Ohio ; " Cai.i.b . Sun ii, of Indiana; Khii't C. U im utior, of Muss ; " J 'i M. Horrs, of Virginia. And we presume we may add to the list Hon. Joint P. K i.hNKov, of Mary land, alter tlio election in thut State. We look fr an animated canvn among (he friends of the several gentlemen proposed ; but when a capable and worthy man shall hive been designated by a mnjorily, w trust the nrccsnity of giving Into every Wh'g vole will nol need to be enlnreed. It is tho manifest dictate of public duly and personal honor. .V. 1. Tnlxne. Masi'paiti'iii-.s ix Cincinnati. UsiJffi in tiik Whom; Hon. In proof of the progress of ihe arts through the whole extent of this country, wu extract the followwing troiii a Cincinnati paper: We saw yesterday, at the Drug and Chemical establishment of George II Hates iV Co. a cryslulized pyramid of Pruttintv, of Potash that can be considered in no other light than a scientific, mechanical, Cincinnati curiosity. It is two and a half feet in height and eight and a half inches in diameter, with a base of fifteen inches, weighing one hundred pounds. It rises in roO'jli, irregular layers, eneh layer having the most perfect and finished edge imaginable. No sculptor or artist with the keenest tools could make tiuer work. I lie color is a beautiful orange. This article of t'ode is made extensively hy these geulle. men anil exporteii east tor (he use ol dyers and oth ers. ii may m- vmwwi u t;,. r ,i1(, r,.,tl,.r to hiiow that tlte i russiate oi runout is maile oi put. ash, old shoes, boo fa of cattle, woolen rags nnd nil refuse animal matter. Rut the main thing ucd hy them is Ihe retime ot the hogs hilled hi tin vicmitv, viz. the hoofs, hair, blood and crn-kbiigsor sent (is of lard, s i there is nothing left of the hog utter he passes the hands of our population. Potatoks. This vegetable has advanced twenly-five to thirty per cent, m this market, in consequence of the accounts published in the newspaper of Ihe appearance of petatoe rot, in different section of tile fj. Stile, nnd in (he llntish .North Amerienn Province. Mow far these accounts are correct, as relates to these Provinces snd the Eastern States, we cannot say, but we incline to think llieni exaggerated, so far ns they refer to the disease in Ohio. We have carefully examined many loads of potatoes exposed for sale in our family markets, and some of those taken in at the provision and packing store, without finding anything unusual in the appearance of the vegetable; nod in n recent visit some seventy miles into the in terior ol the Mate, we heard a good deal atiout the rot, hut could only srr that the common spols nnd other usual delects of potatoes, were inagniticd into that dis- II nnv however prevail as badly in some sec tions of the Stite ns it has been represented it certainly docs nol in this. Cincinnati iiazrtte. A itui-.HT r ii. The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 'i-tli instant, savs: W e learn, upon good authority, that a man named Robertson was brought to the city yester day morning, supposed to he concerned in the murder il Edwards some two years aw, nl ll.iuibridge, near Chillicoihc- He was recognized at Memphis, and brought up lo this city hy one of Ihe public ollicer of tit. it place. We understand that he was taken be fore Judge oilhn, and the Judge recognized bun as being tho mail pointed outtohiui at the time of ihe murder, whom lie pursued some time, in the hopo of arresting him, when he was marshal of our city We have not beard wh it Ins been done with him, but presume he is in jad, awaiting his transfer to Ross county, lor examination Riot trml Viuv Lit it ruon Cimioiima. A letter was ceived in tin city, yesterday from Monterey, in Call forma, dated on the l'.hh of July a little more thau wo iimn lh on the way. It represents the country ns perfectly quiet. Tin weather was tot cold at (h it dite, that it was impo:ouMi) to sleep without one or two blankets, and large tires were necessary in the evening. A 'Mi snd yesterday, ill all our recent accounts I from ('aliform, there is every thing to deter eim. grants from leaving our own line country, lo cast their hits in ho nnserah'e a laud as Cjlilortun or Oregon. Thn statement of tin letter in regard to California, nfiriu our impressions, and represent a lite there, as any thing but agreeable. 47. Intuit litftubUrant Hi itui.uiv Attnr.r anii Comh tioi, A young man, by the name of roiMi, went into tlio Uaptist .Meeting House in this place, on eilnes.Uy night hat, stole a few copies of the llible together with a number of Sabbath School Rooks, and also broke intn the dwelling ol In a Winrr, nl the centre, and after a Miiuipiiious least, carried away a watch and other ar ticles ut conanleralile value, lie was arresletl be tween tins and Ashtabula on the ("Mowing morning, TIIUUSDAV 1CVKN1NG, (September , IN 17. Apropos The Locofoco Abolitionists of Knox county have recently had a meeting to nominate their candidates to bo voted nt nt tho coming election; and at that meeting they " said thtirsoy" about divers matters which they have taken sorely to heart. Among other things they resulted with great solemnity, (for there appear to have been two " Rev." clergymen and nt least three laymen present,) " That the new issue now being made bv tho Whigs of " jXomorc Territory" is n cowardly attempt toevadu the question ol Slavery, the great question ol the (lav, and deserves the unmitigated condemnation of all the real friend of universal liberty." Now we submit whether it is becoming in 11 Rev." gentlemen to harangue political caucuses, convened for the purpose of nominating candidates for secular offices; to ileal their impotent though " unmitigated censure and condemnation " upon fellow citizens for thu honest exercise ol their honest judgments ; audio bandy the epithet of "coward," for no other reason than that those to whom they would apply tho offensive missive have dared V entertain opinions differing from Iheir own? When the " Ruv " gentlemen of Knox shall have settled this qucutioii of clerical pro priety, wc hive a word to say to them on the political question of which they huvp become the volunteer champions. Wo would ask the " Rev. Edwin IL Nu-vin " and (he "Rev. Michael E. Strieby," whether they are in favor of the addition of foreign territory to the United Stales ? And if they are, whether tluvy are in this actuated by any other molivo than thetr Christian desire to have "I regular sol-to " with their qrolhcr Locofocos of the North and South upon the question which must inevitably follow, ns to the future character of the territory so added and annexed Al though these itev. gentlemen are most valiant, (so far as paper and lamp-black go, in applying harsh epithets to their neighbors, we must confess we have not so much coulidcncc in their ralor and wisdom in pre venting the evil about which they make so much empty bluster. How was it in tlte matter of annexing Texas ? This same description of political Sotoiis and Licurgutf.cn then went directly against the man whose election nlono would have averted the catastrophe ; and indinct'ijf and effectually for Ihe election of tho one pledged lo bring about that result, with its train of evil and calamitous consequences. Thry were not go ing to the mountain not they ! The mountain ti'gft anne to them but they would not budge nu inch ! Precious patriots! Enlightened statesmen! Wise and benevolent philanthropists ! Most potent, grave nnd rcrrrrnd Seniors ! Charity would cease from the arth and philanthropy be known only as a tradition among some savage tribe, were thnj to cease their labors in the pieudo 11 Liberty " meetings in Knox co. Jtut ufu-r all, there is a propriety in the course of thPKO men. They doubtless conceive tlieuiselvps to be the very satt of the earth. Having (unshed their work in Ihe ministry, (hey find a little leisure lime to devote to the secluar nll'urs of men ; and with hearts swelling with patriotic emotion, say to thu people around (hem, both M Whigs nnd Democrat " " Btnnd thou an hie ; I nm holierthan thou ! " When they shall hive sufficiently exhibited themselves for the amuso-iiicnt of the idle and (he vicious, il might ho well fi,r their friend, (unless these men shall hnvu wholly monopolized the thing called benevolence) to supply them with a straight jacket, and put them upon a low diet. Peradvcnture they might thus bo restored to partial sanity. DinlrcNhiug JIveut. IIknhv T. Mason, Eho,., formerly of Enfield, Conn., was found (his morning lo have committed suicide, by culling his throat sometime during the night, nt tho Neil House. Mr. Mason had been, for a day or two, out of health and in depressed spirits, and from certain peculiarities now remembered by his friends, hut which at thn time did not excite apprehension, he is tuipposed for a few day past to hive been verging toward insanity, A paroxysm probably seized bun in the night and led him to the fatal catastrophe. Mr. Mason was a man of talents, a ripe scholar, of modest, retiring and somewhat solitary habits, and with fair prospects ol success at the It tr, to which he had been admitted during the last session of the Supremo C' url in Columbus. He was a man of generally so-4. . iu ides.tr !...,.., .4 ii-.v.x .l,,,. nty xf character, and had the esteem of all who knew him. He wis a graduate of Yale College, and had a keen appreciation of the beauties of literature and art; he had in various ways become known to our citizen as man of noble qualities and of fine promise. His means, pecuniarily, were greater (Inn In necessities, anil there is no cause known M his mends lor In de gression of spirit. He hid resided in Columbus sinco a year last July. " He rnmo nnionj; ntnnu'crs, lie died anions friends." All Ui i:ht ! But few nt'ire workm d ivs rcuiiiu lo m h -tween now and the election. We shall thru ) wh it wu shall see! We kmur the Statu Will go right unless there bo culpible neglect, and we think there will not ho such negleot. Rut we cannot forbear to put in a reminder Is it alt right ? My g iod friend you who are now reading this what hive tju done.' Hive you done your whole duty ? Suppoio when the election is over, it turns out tint one, two, or three vole, turned iho scale the wrong way would y-m be able tn look and say th.it you are nit at fault? Tint you could tut hivo mended the m titer if vou h id known how close the vote wai to be. Pray l.iok to the mat-tor. A slich in time save nine. A little time sivcd now, mav turn out p mr eoouoiny. D i you live in a strong Whig county D p you know how much c.mr. ago it gives your opn incuts to diminish the majority against them? And how much more (rouble it will ot to prevent their gaining still in ire next yeir, than it would to prevent their gaining any this? liead-ninish-d, g d Iriends, and rxl u!i nit you! Take such ptrl in tho election that when the victory is gained, you can claim some shire in it. I'l'llCC. How anxiously the public mind is looking for peace! Rumors of peaca hive come, but as yet no confirmation. When peace shall be obtained with Mexico, will it leave u al pence among ourselves? or will it but light up tho torch of a more, terrible, became a more dangerous controversy between thu free and slavo States? And when and how will the great national debt be paid off? When shall we nut-grovr tho burthens cast upon us by one shott administration f Mr. Poi.k Ins already proved how small a man may do great harm. Hut it will require a ddlWent man tn mend it. Again ant) again the inquiry is anxiously passed from one to another, whrn shall irs h ire peart ? and what kind of peace Will it be ? HilU. It is admitted (hit no article of mnu's outward adornment has a greater effect in producing an impression fa vo ruble or unfavorable upon thu beholder, than committed to jail on Ihe same day at J. tferson, mid which lie is wont to cap Ins corporeal climax Clevelnud and Coltimbua Ituilrond The subject of the following article in the Cleveland Herald was alluded toby us on yesterday. Since which wo have received tho request of a friend at Cleveland to publish tho article from the Herald, " that the people of Columbus may have a better understanding about our Rail Road matters than they now have." In compliance with this request, wo copy thu article in txtenso. From the Cleveland Herald. Mil. IlAnnis : Will you be so good a to re-insert the following article which I cut from your last evening's paper, in order that I may correct somoerrone. oils impressions that seem to e.xist in Columbus: "Cl.KVKI.ANII A XI) Coi.UMIIL'S ItAll.lloAlJ. 1 hlS iinportunt work, wlmsa requiem was " said or sung" with so little ceremony or preparation a few months since, and which was henceforward regarded as hav ing gme down to th" tomb of perpetual neglect if hot ot lorgetluluess, is now rising lioiu its oriel repose, apparently refreshed aud invigorated. The work is riot abandoned, as was thought but having passed into other hands, is progressing, under auspices which give good encouragement for lis vigorous prosecution to early and successful completion. Alfred Kelley is now the President of the company, and we observe by a notice in the Cleveland papers that contracts for thu grading and bridging ol so much of said wav as extends from a point about two miles south-west of Cleveland, to a point at or near the village of Rerea, will be assigned on thu y;td inst., at Cleveland. This embraces somo It) miles of the line. The Directors give notice that " it is expected that those to whom contracts are awarded, will commence their work im-diately after Ihe letting. " The company is now worth a dozen defunct corpo-rations; it will produce a work second to lew in the State in point of interest.' Columbus Journal. No " requiem was ever said or sung " over this pro ject. I'he Directors made all exertions within their power during the Inst winter and spring to place the company in such a financial position that the work might he cn in m en ced and carried on successfully, In their efforts lo reach this position they failed for the lime. Reside, the Pittsburgh road was a favorite with many of our citizens, and its friends believed if the Columbus road was either abandoned or suspended, even temporarily, Ihey could do something effective toward making that. If wo could not succeed with our ob ject we certainly were averse to being an obstacle ill tho way oi other similar project, ami we therefore i lelermiiieu to yield the held lor a lime, hut in our nuti- lishcd address we expressly stated that wu did not abandon our work, and hoped when more favorable i:ircuiiHtance might present, to resume and prosecute it successfully. This was in April last. In July nothing having been done here in relerencu to thu Pittsburgh road and thu country having been filled with money liy the unexampled demand aud value ut our agricultural production, and the importance of tins road being more than ever before apparent, il was deemed a favorable moment to re-commence exertions, and it was done with such success that the Director determined to begin tho work itself during the month of September. Another error. The work has not changed hands as Judge Thrall supposes. The stockholders are the same How as in April, with the addition of the recent subscribers. Tim Cleveland Directors are the same now as then with the exception of the lite Mr. Wed-dell and the addition of Mr. Case. In the place of a non-resident Director, Mr Alfred Kelley -was substituted. A large majority of Ihe Directors are therefore the same men now as in April. None of the Directors had practical knowledge in the construction and management of work of this tort, and Ihey all of them hud the good sense to know and admit thut there were other men umre competent than nny one of them to take ihe principal charge of the construction of the proposed road. I Mr. Kelley was n scientific man of great expert encr in the location and construction of canals, nnd in fact had spent the best pirt of hi life in carrying through to a most succesnfiSl conclusion the Ohio canal. The Directors believed if he could he induced to take the office of President and lo give his personal attention to Ihe mailer, his skill, judgment and high character at home and abroad would insure the most favorable results. Mr. Allen wrote him a very pressing letter lo take the place he held, and two of the Directors visile I him at Columbus, and Mr. K. finally consented to do so. His reluctance was not owing to any want of conlideuce iu the practicability or expediency of making tho road, but because he thought after laboring for the public !iU or lit) years of his life he had a right to the quiet use of the residue instead of having a new aud heavy burthen placed upon his shoulders, and we may all congratulate ourselves that his patriotism was more influential Willi him than his private interests aud wishes. A. For thn Ohio St.it Journal. "I had not thought to have unlocked mv lijis Li tin- iimIi tllowed air, hut tli.it ties juicier Obtruding lidso rule pranked Hi reason's g.irb.1'' " Thou Ii ml nor eyes, nor soul to apprehend The sublime notion nnd high mystery ." Hani tint qui mal y jimse, was the exclamation of the uotile minded l.dwanl, when lie stoopeu to nick up a lady's garter, amid the smiles of the guest, at a court revel. t nto the pure all things art purr, saith the trntiuaker. Rut lo ! in our day hath arisen another generation, whose sense of delicacy, ami knowledge of decorum lar excels lint of Britain's majesty or J mien's widom. . generation purr in thtir oirn eyes, priding itself upon its advance Iroin the polluting darkness ol olden time into the noontide of modern morality and purity, and yet one which cannot bear truth because ol her na kedness, in iclwtc st i' Itt the hearens art not clean. List en lu the oracle : From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Powers' Greek Nlnve. Attracted by the praises bestowed upon this beauti ful work of the chisel. 1 stepped in to gratify my cu riosity, and participate in the intellectual enjoyment proiuirtt-d hy so admirable a specimen of the noble art t statuary. IM course I was aware tint the figure appeared wholly unclothed by any drniM-ry, and in simple iiuuity. t. tit entering ine chainucr ol exhitn turn I found it filled with a goodly company of ladies and gentlemen, conversing in whispers, and gating m silent nuimr itimi uimn ihe unveiled ttiauty tie i nre us. Now, w hile I detest prudery, justly so called, I lould dot divest myself ol the teeliug ol the mdelica- :y of youthful spectators of both sexes guxing siiuul- tiiueously upon uuveih-tl charms, which from child hood 1 had been taught to consider unsuited toexiHi- sure to the common rye. . It seemed to me (in descend in mv illustration) that if it would be deemed highly indelicate to introduce into an assemblage of young persons id' both sexes a naked sleeping infant, although pure as the statue, it could not do otherwise thau tend to injure the lino delicate feelings ot a youllilut maid' n, to timi iierseii, in company with a young man, in Ihe presence ot a naked fc imile statue Now whether this feeling be dt leiuihle in the eye ot an artist or not. 1 hoite tlio ground ot it will rve distinguish American females, and I believe I may say I do know that very many, who would like to se the statue, will not do so unless m leutalo company alone. I do therefore hope tho curator will make an arrangement by which a day may lie set apart in each week, when a female may be in attendance and none but females bo admitted. And moreover I am sure it will provo a beneficial step to the owner in a pecuniary point of view. PU RITAS. lea, venly, it is a frown nl and perverse generation, Till. Comsii F.i.kitiov We fee nothing to pro vent entire harmony in the Whig ranks this full, and we know of no dislrncting inlluetires, whirl) ought to, or which can separate big from Whig in ihe ap prone hing contest. All personal predilection should tie laid aside, nnd after noiuinntioiis are made, the tick ct, nml the whole ticket should have every Whig vote. 'Phis spirit will secure a sweeping victory, and llie stability ot the much to he appmved W ing policy of the Slate. The bane In Whig success in I hose contests where only members of the Leginhilure nnd comity officers are lo he choneii, is apathy. 1 here inn I be organiza tion, and active ttorl iu every town nnd election district. Meet them shoulder lo nboiibler, and Ohio remains firmly Wing. Clmtund Hi raid. A Pi.rsAtT (iHifTiNii. An American, writing from California, says lie was greeted by nn old friend on his arrival there, with " Y"U d d fool ! did li t youknow better than to couie lo this (iod-fortaKcn country .'" on Friday (the Court being then m bcksiou.) was tented to three year imprisonment in Ihe Penitentiary. Lanntaut lit parti r, Sept. i!,l. Tur. TfcsT. A good old firmer came in town, a dny or two since, and ns he had heard much of the abominable W lug lax law, he concluded In would see how it was likely to tiffed him. He wu neither rich nor poor, and be supposed his case would lie a fair test, and on examination found Ins tax a Intlc less than heretofore. It is unuiTissnry tosny, hi unfavorable impression ot the law, whatever they hud been, were all reinovi d. S it would be, if every man would do hiimclf the kindness to examine httote hu decides Clermont Courier. They do things very summarily nnd effectually among Ihe Creek Indian. Very lately an Indian killed his cousin. He was raoIil, tro-d nnd sentenced. A grave was dug, in which operation ho assisted Actively, then seating himself by ihe side id' it, he gave the word "lire," to the two nppninted executioners, nnd the next moment fell dead into the grave. Tiik Won it ok im: HiimiA rlolhes-hrush hna been left al our otbec, ns n specimen of the work executed by Ihe inmates oi Ihe Stale Asylum for the Rlmd.nt Colon. bus. 1'poii the back of tins, is a brush of softer bristle, intruded lor the hat. They nre both unit d in one, and are remarkably well made. Cm- riHHiifi (ioittte. his hat. Our rentiers will see by referenro to his advertisement, thai III nMl.l. has just replenished his midnight mass where, during the ceremony, a nude sleeping infant ia introduced, aud exhibited to the gaze of "an assemblage of young persons of both sexes.' But the effect of such sights upon even the pure minded! That seems to alarm our friend mightily. " Could not do olherwiae than tend to injure the tine delicate feelings of a youthful maiden, to find herself in company with a young man in the presence of a naked female statue ;" especially the female statue. We presume the word is used advisedly. Rut n'l'm-porte., we are not so sure of this. If Ihe eight of nudity should produce the effect it did once upon tho " youthful maiden's " great drund-dame, Eve, it would only tend to additional clothing, much even to Ihe satisfaction of Puritas. He says he hopes that the ground of his feeling will ever distinguish American females. Allow us to hope otherwise; for wu respect and admire American females too much ever to suspect them of harboring such-feelings as we are convinced render Puritas' a moral sight so oblique ; and what is more, wo hazard the assertion that Puritas will not find a truly delicate American female to coincide with his views, but that nil inch will go if they can, and be mndo happier by looking upon tho "Greek Slave." We say happier, because il is n heavenly sight to see a woman triumphing even when she is in chains. Iu regard to the concluding hope and advico of Puritas, we hope that no such thing will be done ; and venture the remark, that should the artist learn of such an insult being offered to his conception as the one pmposed, ho would scorn the proposition of such "a beneficial step in a pecuniary point of view," as he did ihe offer of the munificent American traveller in Florence to give " two hundred dollars for that stone gal there;" for wc know him well enough to be as sured that he is none ol those who desire to elevato themselves by a traitorous servility to a fulso public sentiment which decks itself with the name of delicacy. LUSTRATOR. Tho subjoined article from the ' Literary World," published at New York, contains the first authorized announcement of a contemplated publication, hy the Smithsonian Institution, on .tmcriran jJrchwol- oay; and the render will learn Inun tins article the interesting character of the work which the Institution is about to present lo the public. American Arehuology, The Pint Publication of the Smithsonian Institution. Wo are glad to have it in our power to announce the first publication of the Smithsonian Institution. It will he remembered that Mr. nmiluson directed in his will, that his bequest should he devoted lo tho incrcuse and dissemination of knowledge. 1 1 is, therefore, incumbent on the Regents of the Institution endowed by tho liberality of Mr. Simthson to publish und disseminate useful knowledge, and particularly such as may lie an audition to our present stock, or the result of original research. Tlio accompanying letters and report will show that the first work to bo issued is one strictly in accordance with the wishes of the testator, inasmuch as it will impart facts relating to the early people of the American continent which are as new as they are interesting. We consider it a fortunate event, therefore, that the Regent of the Smithsonian Institution have secured the work in iUention, as none could be more appropriate. It will without doubt be well received, and hailed as a good beginning by the numerous readers into whose hands the volume may fall. This work, containing researches intolheorigin and purposes of the' Aboriginal monuments and remains ol the Mississippi Vulley, will embrace the details and result of extended surveys, carried on during several years by Mr. E. G. So,likk and Dr. E. 11. Davis, of Ohio. The labors of these gentlemen embrace tho opening and examination of more than two hundred mounds, of every variety and ciiuracter, iruui the greutesl lo the least. These works were not carelessly overthrown, hut laid open to their centre ; the relics, any existed, were removed, and the eariti again replaced. In these examination the number and variety of aboriginal relics which have been brought to light must excite astonishment in all. Their collection embraces many thousand objects, exhibiting the state if the art among the ancient people, oi whose exis. tence they ure the only uieinonuls. They consist of implements and ornament in silver, copper, lead, stone, ivory, and pottery, fashioned into u variety of forms, ami exhibiting a skill which, iu some instances, modern art cannot surpass. The sculpture of birds, annuals, and reptiles constitutes a large class of these ancient relic. They are cut from various kinds of stone, aud in many lostances.froiu porphyry. Several highly finished sculptures of the human head are ileservuig ol notice, aud proiiahiv convey an idea of the physical character of the people. A single skull, the only one out of many hundred discovered in trag- uls wluel) has tieen preserved entire, anu wnicii our explorers are satisfied belongs to the primitive people, i all wo have, aside iroin lliese, lo en able us to form an opinion of the race. In examining theso remain we discover articles which show the extent of their intercourse with other oaru of the country. '1 hu there nre instruments of uiuiaian, a voieauic Ruimancu oniy iouhu in me xico, native eopjH'r and lead from Luke Superior and the tpper Mississippi, marine shells and cetacean teeth from the sea, and number of pearls of great beauty. nut the mound ami tueir contents are but a small portion of interesting facts made known by thee gentlemen, for we consider the vast earth works the most remarkable. Their labors embrace surveys of more than one hundred works of tins description, some of them twelve nutes in extent; others are vsst enclo sures, covering a space equal to that occupied by tho cily of New York ; again, we see fortified places, in the construction ot which modern military science ght per flaps derive some useful hints. 'I'he work in question Will embrace the details of these most curious and interesting explorations, and will be illustrated by several hundred wood engravings in thu highest style of tho art. Theso will exhibit representations of the relics discovered, views of the mound, and other ancient remain, sections, plans, do. It will also contain seventy quarlo lithographic Ian, being tho surveys of other works alluded to, hud down on an accurate scale. What will lie the ex tent of the letter press wo are unable to say, but it will probably exceed five hundred quarto pnges. Such is a very brief accoiintot the discoveries winch (his work will make known. The facts adduced from them open a new era in our aboriginal history. Tho question will naturally arise, at what period and by whom were these works erected .' w hat lias becoino of tint people? Had they any connexion with the nation ot the other Hemisphere r 0.0. The relics and the works themselves) aid but little in determining thu period when they were made. When Ihe country was settled they were covered with large trees, exhibiting as great an ago as the forest around them. Rut there are other fact connected wiih their position which show that (real physical change have taken place since their creation. These nid us iu determining their antiquity, which imil be reckoned hy thousands of years rather than by centuries.M-iny amlogies are presented to our explorers in investigating Ihe antiquities and pnmitivr history of some ot the earlier nations of the Old World. The serpent and egir, which hna a prominent place in the mythology of Egypt and India, typifying a universal principle, has actually been found in Ohio, in a well defined scrHMit twelve hundred feet in length, formed of earth, m the art of swallowing an egg. Some sinking analogies with tho Druidical rites are also discovered. Thn Phallic worship, too, so universal throughout tho ancient world, may be traced in Ihe remains ol the Missisiippi Valley, as well as many uh'uces ns interesting as they nro remarkable and nuniytherebeUiere.il like unto MnM,who would ,)(,,MMll1(IIon ,Hlgu W(l wcoinpany lhB Wl,tl( have made a vast improvement in the first creation of iinn; who find ftuli with nature iu not clothing her handi work alter the fashion of " Adam's first green breeches," ud who hold the tailor in the highest rank of moral purifier, Did we not fear an accusation of treating Ihe subject too seriously, or were it Worthy of the respect of an argument, it could easily bo shown, that, m all such case of allcdged indelicacy ns the one of which Puritas so movingly murmurs, the mini of tho beholder instead of the artist, is the creator of all the immodest ideas. That many there are like our Pari-tus, so habited hy constitution or will, that as their We cannot closo our remark without speaking of the gentlemen who are engaged in Ihe work. Dr. I).ivi Inn for fifteen year lern a resident nf Chillico. the, during which lime he has been a closo observer, and lias collected ninny vnluahlo nlics from tho mound. Mr. Squier removed to the same place a few years since, when a more thorouuh system of survey and examination of tho earthworks wn commenced. A number of laborers were employed, and, when the weather permitted, these gentlemen were in the field with their spades, surveying instrument and sketch-hooks. For three years they have been incessantly ngiged in their work. From ix-rsonal acquaintance Ily Ti'lrnijili, for tilt? Ohio State Journal. PiTTsm huh, Sept. !W ,tj P. M Editor Ohio State Journal: The mail is in at Richmond, but brings no news from the spat of war. No arrival at New Orlenna from Mexico. At New Orleans the yellow fever was abating 14 deaths on the 'Jlst. PiTTsmiitQM, Sept. 2!) G P. M. Editor Ohio State Journal At Baltimore, Ilowordstrect Flour is held at ,Jt.r,r0 a5,rJ; Corn Meal $4,1)0; Primo White Wheat 1,33 al,,lT; Prime Red Wheat $ 1,00a 1 ,03; Prime While Corn COc.j Prime Yellow Corn (Wc ; Whiskey 27c; Prime Western Pork $(i,ri(lii7,00 ; ltacon, Western, Sides, tiaHjc; Rye Flour $4,00n4, PititADKLPiiu. Western Flour $5,75, and firm; Prime Ited Wheat $l,l2al,15 ; Prime White Corn, sales of 3,000 bushels at uVic, and an active demand ; Clover seed $4,oOa4tti; Mesa Pork, Western, No 1., $13,7r)al4,Utl. Pittsburgh, Sept. 2!) P. M. Genesee Flour $.7t$:aZt,H t and firm ; Prime Yellow Corn (Wc; Wheat is firm at last quotations; Pork has advanced. Mess Pork, western, No. 1, $!4,7o; Beef and Lard quiet. Pittsburgh, Sept. 30, f4 P. M. Philadelphia Market Moderate sales of flour at previous prices tlio market firm. The supply is small. Provisions are without change. Corn meal $'.,.11 J, Prime Red Wheat $l,13al,17. R a i.t l no tir. Howard Street Flour $!,fW4 Prime Red Wheat $1,1,34. The markets generally are without change in any particular. II iff man nit Cap t. John." The Cincinnati Enquirer of last Tuesday, edited by John Uiiouoii, contains the following account of an exploit by its said editor. It does indeed! We clip it bodily from thut same paper. Read and admire : From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Springfield Township Meeting. The Democracy of Springfield township field an nd- jourued meeting in the Free church at Alt. Pleasant, on Saturday, iioth inst. the meeting organized tiy appointing Joseph Jackson Chairman, and 0. U. Smith secretary. John Rrough and James II. Ewing, F.sqrs., were present, and were railed upon in address the meeting. Mr. Ewing confined Ins remarks principally to questions of a Jocnl character, and to some remarks which should be carried forward. Mr. Rrough spoke at great length upon the causes which led to the war, and to the satisfaction of his audience showed Senator Cor-win to be small potatoes (and diseased at that) in mat ters of politics. He concluded hy a thorough examination into the alia irs of our State finances, and effec tually showed up the ridiculous falsehoods of the Whig press, ana oiticiai reports oi the present Auuiior ot State, From the Cincinnati Catntta. Compromises; and Provisos. The Compromises of the Constitution thn Mis souri Compromise the Wilmot Proviso and the Rer rieu i'roviso one or all ut Ihcrte matters form an element in almost every conversation and public discus sion upon the war, the prospects and terms of peace, and the course ol tho administration at Washington. Let us keep iu mind the distinctions between theso propositions. The Compromises of the Constitution related to the adjustment of the powers granted In (he Federal Gov ernment, and those to be retained hy the Stales, and to the arrungeinent ot certain question relating to slavery such as the prohibition of Ihe slave trade, the settlement of tho political power lo be exercised by such Stales a claimed property in human beings held as slaves, and the reclniuntiou of such, in caxo they escaped from the State where they were held iu bondage, into another, tVc. Tho Missouri Compromise limited the continuance of slavery in that part of Louisiana lymgabove .Mi degrees and 31) minutes of north latitude, erept in the Mate of Missimri, as then formed. Sin very existed in Louisiana when it was ceded to us, and tins Proviso was designed to nholih slavery in thai part of the territory lying north of the above line. The Jeil'crson Proviso, in the draft of the Ordinnnre of 17" I, and the Dane clause in the. Ordinance of !7r-7, prohibited slavery in the north-western territory, which had been ceded to the United Slates by Virginia and other Stales, slave nnd free. The Herrien Proviso asserts that the war with Mexico ouht not to he prosecuted with any view to tho dismemberment of thai Republic, or to thr acquisition, by conquest, nf any portion of Imt territory. This opposition is silent as to the acquisition of Mexican territory, in any other way limn by conquest, and it in equally ient to the prohibition of slavery in tcrri-tory which may, in any way, be acquired by the United Slates. The Wilmot Proviso prohibit Slavery in ami territory which may hereafter be arquirtd by the L mttd Htntes in any tray whatever. This is right in the abstract, and in practice. Tfie question of Slavery in territory, to be acquired from Mexico, is a different question, from that prohibiting Slavery above 3(i" IM' north latitude. In the whole ol the bouiaiana territory Slavery existed when it was ceded to us, and a clause ol the treaty secured to the inhabitant protection for their property, and an ultimate admission into the Union upon the footing of the original Stales, the citizens of the new territory to enjoy the same protection and privileges, under tho United Stales, ns the citiieu of those States. This Proviso, therefore, limited and defined the tcrri rory within which Slavery should never thereafter be established and sustained, leaving the remainder of the territory where it stood under the treaty, before that Proviso was enacted. Such cannot be the nperntion of the Wilmot Proviso, in case it shall be applied to territory to becrdrd by Mexico, simply because slavery doe not now exist in Mexico, aud will not exist, when the territory is ceded to us, while it did exist in Louisiana when Wn obtained that terriiory. The Missouri Compromise limited and restricted the continuance of (tie institution of slavery in territory where the law then tolrr-ated it. The application of that Compromise to any Mexican territory, win open me way lor slavery where it docs not now exist, and sanction it establishment there. 1 In we believe is the first direct public t-llort. on the part of any party in the United States, to px- erl the power ol thu federal government lo acquire free territory, in order to convert it intu slave territory. It is our opinion, therefore, thut in I cad of making an issue upon Berrien's Proviso, against the eonynrst of territory, or against all acquisition of territory, in any way, we should makeup an issue upon true principles, containing all that is good in all the propositions. Against the acquisition of any territory, but in case any is acquired, in favor of declaring that in all such territory slarery shall nerer be introduced. Let il never be said of our (loyemmenl, the pioneer in the cause of freedom, our boasted model Republic, that we have exerted our war and pence power, to acquire free territory, in order to plant, nourish, and sustain within il the institution of slavery. This ia our deliberate judt'ineut, and we ask every free man, if tint is not the true doctrine i physical eve Inokiiiir thtouifh a niece of ireen gl i, I ..,!, i. Hniiit-r. Wn ilnnut li.ittif nil. fit nv llinl llu slock : and it is said thai his present assortment hua their mental sight can only view all object tinged by ,.orit,nu and survey of our ancient remains could not Pitt: ft tr wi.il. nt t r. Itisfctid Iherearennw but Iwo towns iu old Essex county, Massachusetts, that will not no accommodated with rndmniU passing thro them when all the lines in progress will be completed, Al the rate the Yankees are going ahead, these two uul-ut-tlie-way tuwus Will soon bo mlctsicUd, never been excelled in Ibis market, cither for quality, style, or Ihe reasonableness of his prices. Wu know thai Mr. Rrnsii i. is a judge in these matters. The Mansfield Wduiff slates that Cnpl Foiin, who wa out in the 3d Ohio Regiment, has received authority from Col. bun to rnisr a company of volunteer, which, as soon as organised nnd rqmp'ied, will repair to Mexico, and join the oth Ohio Regiment. tYuir query Win n Cnpl. Foun shall have raised a company, agreeably to the authority received Iroin Col. rin, will the (inventor of Ohm be ralhd onto furnish tranportali"ii and supplies? And if so, by what authority ? WiMtnusM. The mnjorily for Twi:riv, II n'g, for Delegate to Congress, is Kmo. Tluno were but two members ol Ihe Council to be elected. This body will stand 11 Lnmlbeoa to 2 Whig. The House of Representatives will probably aland Whigs H, Locos Hi. It stood (i and 'ill last year. J Mrs. Hi sin Ci was born near HilUborn, N. Carolina, aud removed Ihenco to lliigemtnwu, Maryland, where she resided till she grew lo Womanhood. From llngersiown she went to Kentucky, and waa there united to Mr. Clay. tj p (iov. Whihui's friend hnve had n county convention at Canton, at which they resolved to erect a monument over Ins grave. their peculnr thoughts and desires. J lilV(. t,,.n n betler hands. Combined with a iter J'Mriid .ays 1 detest prudery. I orreel, lor once. , (1.,rriin(,B m lll0 undertaking and enthusiasm for the Partly doc detest prudery, and doubtless pities - r , ,..!...,, .-llllll..aII,li ,ii.1i,t1i-,.11, .ml ,.. despmes linn who seems to have stolen her "'"'"'r veyor, an rvulriice of whii h may be seen in the splen-garb m order lo insult herself ami worshippers under . ,(), alJ nnf)lrTlMB ,,,rvi.VI and drawings with which " , .... r j his purtioiiu nro nihil lie could not "divest himself of a feeling ol llidel- . j Tw Wofk lhoV( f.,.,.,.,1 0 was submitted icney ol ynutiilul spectators oi oouim -.es gin. M.o.- ()J. 'rnO.tr Henry, the Secretary of ihe Institution, ulUiieou-dy " upon that lioble specimen ul sculpture, ,(( Mf A(rrl .l,-,., i'n.B,dent of Ihe Ethnolog- i oneis ureca ru.ivu. To those who have not beheld thn glowing emhod imeut of an arlisi a dream, we can only say tint Ihe emotion caused by a view of it upon any spirit but such as we are persuaded hermitr.es n Pantos' s ho. sum, is one of Ihe most profound awe. True, the fig ure is nude and is a woman. " Wo cannot clntlm the lady that stands hero In stony tellers tied. and uioltonlcss 1 lttt slay, lie nol diliirled." And what think you, lias that man in hi heart, who, guxing upon unveiled charm " chiseled in fro x n marble, experience the feelings of PiiriM I low much purer and loftier wa the exclamation of ihe unlettered child of Erin, when he first beheld the im modest Slave, St. fathrich ! and want I fire her!" Puiitas, in his detestation ol pruuery, say main would thi highly indelicate to introduce into an assemblage of young person of both sexes a naked sleeping infant." It certainly ihen is very indecorous for dame nniure lo send tlicut into the world, fur that is mirr a Urge assemblage of both sexes. We imagine ihmdcleslorot prudery would Im- awfully shock ed at witnessing n religion ceremony ot ihe iiomnn church as performed in Italy, uu Christmas Eve the ic.il Society, with a View lo a report on it character. It waa rnrelully examined by a committee consisting of Edward Robinson, 1. D.John R Hirtlett, Prof. W. W. Turner, Samuel (1. Morion, M. II., and Hon. Oenrge P. Marsh whose written report shows that it has intrinsic rlaims to the high distinction of being adopted ns ihe first volume of the Smithsonian Con-tribiition to Knowledge."' Comprising as il does an account of the most remarkable discoveries thai have t bern made auioiiir the Anlutuitie ot our cnnulry, it must he a most important contribution to the stock ol human knowledge. Aai.riiorR nr l.r avi:ttk. During the Revolu lionnry wur, (ien. Lafayette being in Baltimore, wn invited to a ball. He went as requested, hut instead of joininir in the amusement, n might be rxpected of a young Frenchman of twenty-two, he addressed the Inuie thus iadics, you are very Handsome; you d-iiico very pre Ily; your ball is very tine ; but my soldirrs h.ire no shirts " The appeal was irresistible ; the ball censed; the ladies went home and went to work, and the next diy a large liuinbfr of lurls wi re prepared by the )Hiret hand of Baltimore, lor tho gallant defenders of their country. Prospect f .ood Crop in Europe. from Ihe Liverpool Mail, ol .Sept. 4. The accounts received from all quarter respecting tie state of the crops nre most cheering, and the harvest prospects become daily brighter still. In England and Scotland the produce is likely to bo unusually abundant. In Ireland, although, in a few localities and ut a modified form, the pftium disease hna undoubtedly rc-appcureu, yet mere is nu inn whole not only no ground tor gloomy apprehension such as those by wincn, wiih mil too mucii reason, wo were ftgiUted at this time last year, but there is every evuletice of a bountiful supply for man and lieail, that supply, moreover, being to an extent which, although still lar below what is desirable, is yet great beyond precedent of gram, rather llinu thut of the comparatively precarious root which ban si long formed almost exclusively the su'leiiince uf the bulk of Irish (H-opiu. From Ihe continent of Europe nml from America we have equally gratifying aunnun m-ntsof lertihn . Al vnrious parts of ihe Eurom-an Continent the eroii are described as double, treble, or even qiudniph-, or even quadruple the average product ; and Iheabomi- dings ol plenty on the other side of Ihe Atlantic nety be inferred from the vast imports n Inch we have lately find of flour and other brcsdstutls. The potato disease prevail to some extent ; but (he diminution of the usual supply i not expected lobe more than one-fourth. It could not be expected to disappear all st once. In Scotland the yield of all kinds of grain so fur s can be ascertained, is very abundant much more so, indeed, than was expected a week or two before the harvest began. In various quarters (he idea of n re or less exit-move finlnre of the potato is very li unci-uusly held ; but the Olasulow Courier savs A regard the district around this city, if any ayuivlomx of failure have been obwrved at nll they nre of a trilling character." Tha Perth lonstitutianal observes "In ihi quarter the crop are mostly cut down, ami a gn at proportion secured in Admirable condition. There i s paiiiul taint amongst the pot a lor, hut to a very lim ill d extent. Turnips continue to look beautiful, and the crop wilHm abundant " The first roiiimiiuication by Telegraph from Cii, ciouati to LouihviIIc, wua transmitted on the evening of the 23d nisi. i

WEEKLY T 0 STAr 1171 VOLUME XXXVIII. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1847. NUMBER 6. PUHLISIIKD KVKIIY WKIllSKMDAY MOIiSIN(i, 5Y WILLIAM U. THRALL. Office ia tho Journal linililiiig, Mouth-rant comer of High street ttnil Sugar alley. ' T 1. RMS: Timrr. Dni.r.An vr.ti annum, which may bo discharged by thn payment ot' Two lloi.i.Ait in advance, and free of pottnw, or of per centime to Agents or 'ol lectors. The Journal in also published daily nml T ri-Woekly du-riiivr tlio year ; Daily, per annum. 7 ; Tri -Weekly, jsl. WUDNENUAY J:VKNINC;,HcptRmber,lN4T. The Mailt t Oh ! The Mulls. Wo have received a letter from a friend in Wast ford, Union county, complaining that the Hln.lv Journal does not rench its subscribers tit Hint place until ono week from Ihe day of publication and urging upon us to have the evil remedied. Tin- delay, our correspondent think", if mostly in the Post Office " some-where! and suggests as nn expedient a change in the direction. It aliull be made. Where such irreguluri-tie occur, we ore desirous of being advised thereof, in order that if possible a remedy may be applied and also that we ma) have the opportunity to assure our patrons that ai.w avs, and vniikk all cihcumstamckb, our papers are promptly made up, and deposited in the Font Olliee. From this rule we admit of no departure ; and if our patrons fail to receive their papers, wc can always assure them that the fault in not with us. MiKiiF.nm iHscHAiioF.it. George Dunn, who wan convicted of the murder of James Anderson, at Pitts-! burgh, in November, 14, and sentenced to be exc-1 ctil-'d, was disuhurged on ttie 23d instant, by the Su-, preme Court on a writ of error. It docs not appear from the record that Dunn was brought into court, and tho usual question asked, " whether ho had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him," &3. Other informalities also ap-! peared, mid for these he was discharged. Thus on mere technicalities a murderer was set free ! He had been three years in jail, and before G o'clock of the day lie was discharged he was taken to the watch house o much intoxicated that he could nut take care of himself. Nkw Covsterfkit. A new counterfeit three dollar note on the Unuk of Sandusky, has made its appearance. It is signed II. Higgin, President, nnd W. W. Wetherell, Cashier, dated October 1st, H4 I, let-ter A, payable to O. Smith. Their general appearance is well calculated to deceive, and the signatures extremely well done; the general appearance rather lighter than the genuine. No notes have been issued by this bank, of a date since IHI2, and none payable to O. Smith. Sliiiuls Acciot:tr. We regret very much to state (says the Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday morning) tint our esteemed fellow citizen, Wji K. Bonn was very seriously injured yesterday by the falling of a par on board the steamer Robert Morr's. In its descent it struck him down, breaking botti legs the one above, the other below the knee. He was also much bruised about the head and shoulders ! nnd fears are entertained that his spin" is seriously injured. Mr. It. was abuiit leaving with a daughter for the east; and was awaiting his baggigo when tho accident occurred. ObetMi Hooks." Under this head the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle has some very pointed and just remark in reference to a certain book which is to bo noticed u in the advertising cdIumiiih of the daily papers of that city," and the circulation of which he considers as scattering moral pestilence among those who may rend the hook. The tit. L'jui JVrw Era has an article upon the same subject; and submits thn question, whether respecta ble papers which have admitted the advertisement of this book, should not' look to the nutter, and find whether they are not advertising n contraband article." The advertisement of t!m book referred to is not confined to one or two cities it may be met in one half the p ipers, city and country, in the Stale of Ohio at the present time. It is advertised daily in this city, and openly offered for sale. Tiie putative author of the book is now under indictment in New York, for it publication and his other half is under a $lo,tii)tl bond, for shameful offences against the law. But notwithstanding all this, we much query whether the Chronicle has not more effectually advkhtisi.u the work, thin any other press in Cincinnati whether his plain spoken condemnation of the work, will not bring m to purchasers than nil tin paidadvertiic-ini-Fits in the City, with all their specious deceptive ness. Mew Hooks. "ATi.r IJ-ioK ot- N Aim ti. l'im.oopiiv. For the Use of Hi-hoots and Colleges. Containing the most recent discoveries and farts compiled from the best authorities." Ily Joiix Wn.i.ni Ihnrin, M. I). Professor of Chemistry in the University of New York. Published by Harper and Rrothers, It 17, and lor sale by J. R. Scruggs, Columbus. Dmr.t tioks ioit lsvi(.HtAi inu Ann Pitoi.ojmisr. Luis; or, The Inmlid's Oracle. Containing peptic precepts, pointing nut ngr'-euble and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the net ion of the stomach and bowels. Ily XV m. Kirciimn, M. D. From the sixth London edition ; revised and improved by T. S. RwmK.rr, licentiate in medicine and surgery, fellow of the New York Medical and Philosopbie.il Society." Published by Harper A. Brothers, 1I7 fur sale by 1. N. Whiting V Huntington ' Shi.r mi s or Nati iiu, Huroitv." "Talks ii Vi:kh:." Th ire pleasant Utile vol- uuies for children by M HowiTr. Published by Harper A, Rrother and tor sale by Whiting & Hunt-inglnn.,l Srnuv of the B vTTi.r. or W vthui.oo." By Rev, G. II. (ti.tciu, M A. Author of the Hutory of Hie Jlihle, Vc. Revised by the Duke of Wellington. The second and finishing part of this Story," pub-Iisbed by the Harpers, is for salo at the llookstoro of I. N. Whiting V lluiitingtou. " Loi is Til k Foi itTt.KN ru, Jmlthf Court of Frunrt in (As Ili'A Cfiiury." Uy Miss Pardoo. This work to which wa referred more at large a few dys since, is to be comoleled in six parts. Part tilth is received at the Hookstore of Whiting A Huntington. Harper's " Pn rom ii. Hi-'Touv or Lsoi.imi toj bo completed in uhoul 4D numbers. The No 'J, bring-1 ing down tho History U A. I). HmI, is received by Messrs. Whiting and llnntiugloii. llarors' Ni.w Ii.i.i'stratv.m Jor.rin s." A new and very valuable translation, by Rev. II Thah.i., D. I)., with notes, explanatory essays, tVc, by Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Oregon, Part third of this work is received by Messrs Whiting A Huntington. " Rusm.i.i., ,1 Tulnf tht lltian f Charhs .' Hy G. P. R. Jahi. Author of Tho Castle of F.ru-tein,' 'Tin Step Mother,' Vo. A cheap edition, uniform with Harpers' Library of Select Novels price if5 cents for sate by Whiting & Huntington. Thk I'tii.itv anu Sritvur.s or tiik UniTrn 8 tat: Mn.ir uiv ArimiMv; with notices of some of its graduates fallen in Mexico. An Address delivered June IS, M7, at West Point, by Kuh aiiii D. M Am:i.i, of ('tncinnnti." We are indebted to Messrs. Whiting A Huntington fur a copy ol tliis Address, which cannot fail to awaken the lively interest of the reader in behilf of " The Academy." While the Art of War is practiced which we suppose must : be the case until the niture of man is changed institutions of this sort will prove of incalculable silvan-tnge to those- nations which foster tlicni- Hut Mr, Mansfield shows that it is not the Art of War alone winch is ar'pnred at "The Point." On tho contrary, the studies pursued and exercises practised there, ore eminently calculated to ipialily the students for au active participation in any of the pursuits of life. The Address teems with interest in the several department of History, Philosophy, and Iliography. "Til a Ohio Hahuomst: A cut Ire lion of Psulm and Hymn tunes, from the best Authors, to which is added a mipplcment of Tempeiniice Songs. Hy Al.- KKtMirn Ai'i.n-V The Author some time since left upon our table a copy of this work ; and we regret to pay our knowledge of the science of Music is so liiu ited as to dismialify us for forming nn opinion as to ill merits. The author did, however, advance tunny cogent arguments in its behalf, which to us were perfectly overwhelming nnd ho seemed to have any ipianlity in store for those not so readily sntislied as ourselves. We will loan the book tn any one ualift-t'd, who will promise to give it a inir trial. I)r.rnTtni or Nkw Out r ai A rrentleiimn writes that he dined at the St. Chailes, with but one other person at tho table. ltiifticntioiu Tho editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, as is his wont, has been rusticating ; and in his rumbles it would seem he has paid a visit lo our city. Wc know not how he will excuse himself from the charge which we here prefer against htm, of having failed to do himself the justice and ourself the pleasure of a call at our sanctum, lie should have found a seat made comfortable by a hearty welcome. When next hu visits the capital, we look for a correction of tho omission. Meanwhile, we appropriate for the u.10 of our readers the following " bird's-eyo view " of the places through which he passed : The Interior nnd it Towns. The editor was absent last week, on a little tour through the interior. Everything there bears the air of a vigorous but quiet prosperity. The crop of corn is very heavy, and unless the early frosts in jure it n some of the northern counties it will be enormous. The full grass is fresh and abundant. Indeed the fo-Iiu;e of autumn is rarely so green ntthis season. Tho "sere and yellow leaf" in just beginning to appear, although when the rains have ceased their effect, the trees will soon begin to spread the earth with their own gaudy dress. It is sometimes said, that Railroads injure small towns but we have never seen au instance of it. Xenia is improving; and Springfield is, ut present, improving very fast. Many substantial brick buildings nro being erected in the last place ; and a mora beautiful town,aud country about it, cannot be found. Comimdus is rather an anomaly. It increases about as fast ns Dayton, without apparently the came cause. The State Institutions, now on a very large scale, doubtless greatly add to its prosperity. In addition to tins, there is a very rich country around it, and soma manufacturing, lint, wo imagine, that Columbus must have some enterprising nnd sagacious men in it. Alter all, it is the lending minds in a place, which have moat to do with its fortune. It' they lire active, iudustriouH, and sagacious, they will give the town a lead over others. If, on Ihe contrary, they are dull and sluggish, the town will grow but slowly. We should cull Columbus tho Villa ol Churches, to look at it. There were, we think, no less than fice building and unfinished. Th-ro are there two Presbyterian, two Methodist, two Episcopalian, a German Reformer, German Lutheran, German Rationalist, a Catholic, Raptist, Universalis!, Welch, and Colored Churches in nil, some fourteen or (ifteen a much larger number, in proportion' to the inhabitants, than Cincinnati has. There is ono thing there, tlio good people of Ohio ought to be ashamed of, and that is their miserable, dirty, inconvenient, nnd contemptible State House. Some party papers have the fully Ut exclaim, extravagance," when some liberally disposed Legislature seems inclined to build a new one. The member who, after thjs, shall vote against a Slate House appropriation, should be obliged to go barefooted home, and never wear shoes again. It is contemptible to see our Legislature Biieaking into such a shanty ! It will be a very popular move to build a new one. We let them know tlttt in advance. i nti: t.K v i i.i.k is surrounded by one of the richest countries in the world, but it grows slowly. There is not much business, except mere country trade. Ciiii.mcotii e the ancient capital of the State-enjoys a sort of dignified rase. It grows slowly, and is prosperous in its circumstances, but it seems to ha no very remarkable enterprise. It has a laruo country trade, but little manufacturing. Of late years, two or three Iron Fmmdericit have sprung up, and do a good business. They get good coal at Chillicothe, about as cheap as in Cincinnati. And they might have Iron as cheap. The price of Cotton would be about the snme. With these advantages, the business of Iron mid Cotton manufacturing, might be curried on there very well. Poitisnoi rii is well situated, but grown slowly. The nnd location of the Canal there, lias proved a great injury to the place. Oo the river, we see every town has its Packet Hoat; and tins is a great benefit to tho.u. The river country is rapidly improving. In time, the hanks of the Ohio will be u continuous garden, interspersed with country seats. Pr.Ai nr.. Some of the Illinois papers are boasting of Peaches 11 and ll inches in circumference. At the last floriculture Fair in this city, specimens of ibis fruit were exhibited Ut inches in circumference. Rut the largest peach is by no means the hint peach. Since the above was in type, we have louud Ihe Rochester American bragging about a peach tf inches in circumference. Ctneinmai (Jazttte. Hpenking of peaches did the Gazette notice that at the late Fair of the Columbus Horticulture Society, Peaches were exhibited measuring over a foot in cir. ciimfereticc, and weighing II ounces? The world his been challenged to produce their eipial, Whnt duill it urofit us I When the ancient Aztecs were wandering, many a long ceoiury ug', over the mountain district. of north-wcslcrn Mexico, pausing here ami there to build cities only to be impelled by au inexorable fate to divert them in quest of new sites ill some more southerly clime, they were told or tint is the legend by their Seers, who interpreted the will of their tied Mexitli, to expect a permanent home and found a durable empire on the spot where they should liml an eale sitting on a nopal devouring a serpent. All th-'se they found in the vale of .leieo; there they built their city ; ond there, in that beautiful nook, in a mountain elysnuu, far above the earth, a utile and a half in the air, so-questred from the worl l, and unknown to the world, grew up the barbaric, but magnificent, Empire of the Montezuma, nnd endured until it was broken by the sivord ami trodden under tho foot of the Spaniard. When the descendants of Ihe cotumerors shook oil' the yoke of d' pendente, they chose the old emblem of the A.tecs the eagle and the serpent as the anus of their Republic, perhaps expecting for it the same pow- r nnd perpetuity which luu tieeu vamiy promncii uy the Indian Empire. Little did they dream ot a lutiire day when another Eagle, from the north, should swoop into their valley anil roll their own lord ot Uie nopal oi his prey. That day, however, has arrived. Theen-gb-s of the two Republics liuve tioiL'ltt together in the sacred valley ; Ihe American eagle Ins prevailed over the Mexican eagle; and now the former exults over Ins prize, which is, alter all, a bunch of thorns and a serpent ! Thenc are, indeed, likely to prove nil the spoils which are to reward us for all our Mexican victories, won at (he price of so much treasure and so much blood. We uiukc pence ; we acquire Mexican teintory, which we know not How to die pone of without a quarrel among ourselves; a quarrel winch threatens Ihe greatest danger lo the Republic. There is the dilliiulty whoso thorns already wound us; then is the serpent uhieh may tiling us. It required hi tic political wisdom to bring about the wur with Mexico- it will demand all the wiodoin thai belongs to the best statesmen of the country lo contrive a peace that shall be equally suto and honorable. The perpetuity of the Aztec conquest was the promise only of a pagan god, or the bilse prophets who palter to us in a double sense. It finished from tho hands o the Atecs; it declines in those of the Mex icans; in ours, the period ol possession could only no n few brief ye art ol contention, and peril Hps cunvul-siuti. ,urlk .ImtfirriH. For the Ohio State Journal. Written on icimri.o'ite; the Indication of the Chapel qf the Ohio Lunatic Ur'um. DX KATK CAKOL. Lightly ! trend lightly ! 'tis the house of prayer ; Yet thru' no dun church nicla, the sunbeam (bids its ray ; .No mnnivo pillars bathed in burning cold are thern, Like tin- twilight's robe of criui-t n, folding in ihe dny. Through lolty arches doth no organ's .leep notes roll, Like tho song of seraph's sweeping o'er the soul. Lightly! tread lightly! 'lis the house of prayer; Vet o'nr its snowy crest rolls many a vacant eye. What ntrauc,o wild group nre gathered ttiero ( hoeti soiii fair victim on yon niter lie f TIiono holy ititm of (iod no lovclv lorui lii'h stole, By their bands shall no crimson lilu blond roll. Litibily ! tread lightly ! 'tis the house of prayer lint lie wIhim? misxiou unto earth was love, The (miner of His mercy still waves there, Yet those wild spirits scud no cit't above, for tint soiiI'k ruli.mt J i 1 1 1 hath fors;iken her trust, And rauivn't proud quccu lies shrouded in dust. Lightly! tread lightly ! 'tis the house of prayer; A nil Mutiny hojies wi re throned on iinny a brow, Where now' wave masses of dudioveib-u bair. now, Why come that strange, wild hand iKinciith those portals Willi atiu'uixh 'd treid and sitint of despair. Come they to breuttic ono current of celestial airt Ah ! yes, for them does that soft gush of music thrill For them do ihoic low tones of prayer umo, Like muliiiirlit's orifoti when all is utill, '1'hrciidiug its far oil pathway to the skies; " (Mi ! Like it. Father, 'tis no h-tty boon for Ibee, Yet take the temple thut we dedicate to thee." Oh ! 1 have stood 'scath pjllar'd domes, at vesper hour. Where the soli liht a fnint, and ntirry radiancy hliecl, Where the low breath of prayer, like- a strange spell bod power, To bow tho clustering locks of many a fair young head. Yes! I hnvii seen tho youn, the bcautilnl, thu g:iy, Liko (lowers upprctai'u with slumber, bund to pray. Hut no! not there, not when a silvery halo shed '"Ei From rui'el brows, like lurhts from (leaven seemed beam-Not when tliu wings of seraph's in its radiance lov'd, Like silicon banners through the dun aiie (.treaioii'g Not then, not there, swept o'er my mhiI like chimin thrill, Thai seemed to wuko from lar mi' harps he still." ! And oh ! when need time, and when harvest !i;i1l have pass'd And the rainbow the lust tune Hfians the skv, W hen through earth's caverns rolls tlio triimpl blast, SuinmoiMiin her spirits to their lin;i (loom, on hi:;h, i Oh, holy tneri of (iod thu gift ye to your Saviour brought, ' I'roni 'niuUt that str.tiige, wild Iniitl, it shall be it n forgot. Cui.UMlits, U., .Sept. V.uth, I'll?. Suam. Potatoiis." This term is so generally I reproachful that the person or thing lo which it is applied is placed in the lowestattitude. Ruteven small potatoes should not be despised, as the following facts, which were related to us by one of our townsmen who derived most profit from the proceeding, fully illustrated. Some years ago a gentleman visiting a firm in Tolland, Connecticut, took from Ins pocket ubiiiu II intruder which somehow got in thereat home. It wai thrown out with a smile, and the farmer taking it in liii hand to look at it, a curious little boy of twelve nt his ei-bow linked what it was. " Oh, nothing but a potato, my hoy take and plant it, and you sinll have all ymi can raise from it till you are free." The lad look it, ami Die tanner thoug.it no more about it at that lime. I he boy, however, not despising small potatoes, carefully divided it into as many pieces as he could find eyes, and put them in the ground ; the product was carefully put aside in the full, and seed for several hills was obtained for the next spring. Tho product was all kept for seed until, in Ihe fourth year, the yield being good, the actual product was four hundred bushels ! The firmer, seeing the p.-uspeot that the potato tield would hy another year cover his whole farm, asked to he released fiom his promise. With the same calculation, prudence, mid industry, how many who are disposed to regard tho trilling things mi which fortunes are built as too small put a tins to receive Iheir attention would have been in independent circumstances if they had husbanded their small ndvnntngi'S ! Small putntors should not be despised, even though there be at lirst but a : i.t i iiii.l I'tirUmutilh Journal. Thk Nr.r Si'KAKr.ii. The late shameful results in Rhode Uluiid and Maine have not subverted the strong probability thai the W Iml's will have a umjority in the next Federal Mouse of RcprcNeniativc, though Ihey have decided that this majority inu-l lie small probably not more than three to six. hhould the Whigs of M iT) land behave ns badly as those if Maine have done, ihe House may be oxt, but that hardly poi ble. The election of Speaker is of some worth hm nn omen ; for no do not remember that a President has ever yet been elected of politic opposed to llmau of the Speaker of the House chosen the December previous. We tiust this important post Will nut U thrown away, now that thu W hig have only lo put forth au eltort and lake it. Among Ihe higs spoken of ill connection with tlio Speakership we have renin iked the names of Hon. Svtii ;L F. ViMos.nf Ohio ; " Cai.i.b . Sun ii, of Indiana; Khii't C. U im utior, of Muss ; " J 'i M. Horrs, of Virginia. And we presume we may add to the list Hon. Joint P. K i.hNKov, of Mary land, alter tlio election in thut State. We look fr an animated canvn among (he friends of the several gentlemen proposed ; but when a capable and worthy man shall hive been designated by a mnjorily, w trust the nrccsnity of giving Into every Wh'g vole will nol need to be enlnreed. It is tho manifest dictate of public duly and personal honor. .V. 1. Tnlxne. Masi'paiti'iii-.s ix Cincinnati. UsiJffi in tiik Whom; Hon. In proof of the progress of ihe arts through the whole extent of this country, wu extract the followwing troiii a Cincinnati paper: We saw yesterday, at the Drug and Chemical establishment of George II Hates iV Co. a cryslulized pyramid of Pruttintv, of Potash that can be considered in no other light than a scientific, mechanical, Cincinnati curiosity. It is two and a half feet in height and eight and a half inches in diameter, with a base of fifteen inches, weighing one hundred pounds. It rises in roO'jli, irregular layers, eneh layer having the most perfect and finished edge imaginable. No sculptor or artist with the keenest tools could make tiuer work. I lie color is a beautiful orange. This article of t'ode is made extensively hy these geulle. men anil exporteii east tor (he use ol dyers and oth ers. ii may m- vmwwi u t;,. r ,i1(, r,.,tl,.r to hiiow that tlte i russiate oi runout is maile oi put. ash, old shoes, boo fa of cattle, woolen rags nnd nil refuse animal matter. Rut the main thing ucd hy them is Ihe retime ot the hogs hilled hi tin vicmitv, viz. the hoofs, hair, blood and crn-kbiigsor sent (is of lard, s i there is nothing left of the hog utter he passes the hands of our population. Potatoks. This vegetable has advanced twenly-five to thirty per cent, m this market, in consequence of the accounts published in the newspaper of Ihe appearance of petatoe rot, in different section of tile fj. Stile, nnd in (he llntish .North Amerienn Province. Mow far these accounts are correct, as relates to these Provinces snd the Eastern States, we cannot say, but we incline to think llieni exaggerated, so far ns they refer to the disease in Ohio. We have carefully examined many loads of potatoes exposed for sale in our family markets, and some of those taken in at the provision and packing store, without finding anything unusual in the appearance of the vegetable; nod in n recent visit some seventy miles into the in terior ol the Mate, we heard a good deal atiout the rot, hut could only srr that the common spols nnd other usual delects of potatoes, were inagniticd into that dis- II nnv however prevail as badly in some sec tions of the Stite ns it has been represented it certainly docs nol in this. Cincinnati iiazrtte. A itui-.HT r ii. The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 'i-tli instant, savs: W e learn, upon good authority, that a man named Robertson was brought to the city yester day morning, supposed to he concerned in the murder il Edwards some two years aw, nl ll.iuibridge, near Chillicoihc- He was recognized at Memphis, and brought up lo this city hy one of Ihe public ollicer of tit. it place. We understand that he was taken be fore Judge oilhn, and the Judge recognized bun as being tho mail pointed outtohiui at the time of ihe murder, whom lie pursued some time, in the hopo of arresting him, when he was marshal of our city We have not beard wh it Ins been done with him, but presume he is in jad, awaiting his transfer to Ross county, lor examination Riot trml Viuv Lit it ruon Cimioiima. A letter was ceived in tin city, yesterday from Monterey, in Call forma, dated on the l'.hh of July a little more thau wo iimn lh on the way. It represents the country ns perfectly quiet. Tin weather was tot cold at (h it dite, that it was impo:ouMi) to sleep without one or two blankets, and large tires were necessary in the evening. A 'Mi snd yesterday, ill all our recent accounts I from ('aliform, there is every thing to deter eim. grants from leaving our own line country, lo cast their hits in ho nnserah'e a laud as Cjlilortun or Oregon. Thn statement of tin letter in regard to California, nfiriu our impressions, and represent a lite there, as any thing but agreeable. 47. Intuit litftubUrant Hi itui.uiv Attnr.r anii Comh tioi, A young man, by the name of roiMi, went into tlio Uaptist .Meeting House in this place, on eilnes.Uy night hat, stole a few copies of the llible together with a number of Sabbath School Rooks, and also broke intn the dwelling ol In a Winrr, nl the centre, and after a Miiuipiiious least, carried away a watch and other ar ticles ut conanleralile value, lie was arresletl be tween tins and Ashtabula on the ("Mowing morning, TIIUUSDAV 1CVKN1NG, (September , IN 17. Apropos The Locofoco Abolitionists of Knox county have recently had a meeting to nominate their candidates to bo voted nt nt tho coming election; and at that meeting they " said thtirsoy" about divers matters which they have taken sorely to heart. Among other things they resulted with great solemnity, (for there appear to have been two " Rev." clergymen and nt least three laymen present,) " That the new issue now being made bv tho Whigs of " jXomorc Territory" is n cowardly attempt toevadu the question ol Slavery, the great question ol the (lav, and deserves the unmitigated condemnation of all the real friend of universal liberty." Now we submit whether it is becoming in 11 Rev." gentlemen to harangue political caucuses, convened for the purpose of nominating candidates for secular offices; to ileal their impotent though " unmitigated censure and condemnation " upon fellow citizens for thu honest exercise ol their honest judgments ; audio bandy the epithet of "coward," for no other reason than that those to whom they would apply tho offensive missive have dared V entertain opinions differing from Iheir own? When the " Ruv " gentlemen of Knox shall have settled this qucutioii of clerical pro priety, wc hive a word to say to them on the political question of which they huvp become the volunteer champions. Wo would ask the " Rev. Edwin IL Nu-vin " and (he "Rev. Michael E. Strieby," whether they are in favor of the addition of foreign territory to the United Stales ? And if they are, whether tluvy are in this actuated by any other molivo than thetr Christian desire to have "I regular sol-to " with their qrolhcr Locofocos of the North and South upon the question which must inevitably follow, ns to the future character of the territory so added and annexed Al though these itev. gentlemen are most valiant, (so far as paper and lamp-black go, in applying harsh epithets to their neighbors, we must confess we have not so much coulidcncc in their ralor and wisdom in pre venting the evil about which they make so much empty bluster. How was it in tlte matter of annexing Texas ? This same description of political Sotoiis and Licurgutf.cn then went directly against the man whose election nlono would have averted the catastrophe ; and indinct'ijf and effectually for Ihe election of tho one pledged lo bring about that result, with its train of evil and calamitous consequences. Thry were not go ing to the mountain not they ! The mountain ti'gft anne to them but they would not budge nu inch ! Precious patriots! Enlightened statesmen! Wise and benevolent philanthropists ! Most potent, grave nnd rcrrrrnd Seniors ! Charity would cease from the arth and philanthropy be known only as a tradition among some savage tribe, were thnj to cease their labors in the pieudo 11 Liberty " meetings in Knox co. Jtut ufu-r all, there is a propriety in the course of thPKO men. They doubtless conceive tlieuiselvps to be the very satt of the earth. Having (unshed their work in Ihe ministry, (hey find a little leisure lime to devote to the secluar nll'urs of men ; and with hearts swelling with patriotic emotion, say to thu people around (hem, both M Whigs nnd Democrat " " Btnnd thou an hie ; I nm holierthan thou ! " When they shall hive sufficiently exhibited themselves for the amuso-iiicnt of the idle and (he vicious, il might ho well fi,r their friend, (unless these men shall hnvu wholly monopolized the thing called benevolence) to supply them with a straight jacket, and put them upon a low diet. Peradvcnture they might thus bo restored to partial sanity. DinlrcNhiug JIveut. IIknhv T. Mason, Eho,., formerly of Enfield, Conn., was found (his morning lo have committed suicide, by culling his throat sometime during the night, nt tho Neil House. Mr. Mason had been, for a day or two, out of health and in depressed spirits, and from certain peculiarities now remembered by his friends, hut which at thn time did not excite apprehension, he is tuipposed for a few day past to hive been verging toward insanity, A paroxysm probably seized bun in the night and led him to the fatal catastrophe. Mr. Mason was a man of talents, a ripe scholar, of modest, retiring and somewhat solitary habits, and with fair prospects ol success at the It tr, to which he had been admitted during the last session of the Supremo C' url in Columbus. He was a man of generally so-4. . iu ides.tr !...,.., .4 ii-.v.x .l,,,. nty xf character, and had the esteem of all who knew him. He wis a graduate of Yale College, and had a keen appreciation of the beauties of literature and art; he had in various ways become known to our citizen as man of noble qualities and of fine promise. His means, pecuniarily, were greater (Inn In necessities, anil there is no cause known M his mends lor In de gression of spirit. He hid resided in Columbus sinco a year last July. " He rnmo nnionj; ntnnu'crs, lie died anions friends." All Ui i:ht ! But few nt'ire workm d ivs rcuiiiu lo m h -tween now and the election. We shall thru ) wh it wu shall see! We kmur the Statu Will go right unless there bo culpible neglect, and we think there will not ho such negleot. Rut we cannot forbear to put in a reminder Is it alt right ? My g iod friend you who are now reading this what hive tju done.' Hive you done your whole duty ? Suppoio when the election is over, it turns out tint one, two, or three vole, turned iho scale the wrong way would y-m be able tn look and say th.it you are nit at fault? Tint you could tut hivo mended the m titer if vou h id known how close the vote wai to be. Pray l.iok to the mat-tor. A slich in time save nine. A little time sivcd now, mav turn out p mr eoouoiny. D i you live in a strong Whig county D p you know how much c.mr. ago it gives your opn incuts to diminish the majority against them? And how much more (rouble it will ot to prevent their gaining still in ire next yeir, than it would to prevent their gaining any this? liead-ninish-d, g d Iriends, and rxl u!i nit you! Take such ptrl in tho election that when the victory is gained, you can claim some shire in it. I'l'llCC. How anxiously the public mind is looking for peace! Rumors of peaca hive come, but as yet no confirmation. When peace shall be obtained with Mexico, will it leave u al pence among ourselves? or will it but light up tho torch of a more, terrible, became a more dangerous controversy between thu free and slavo States? And when and how will the great national debt be paid off? When shall we nut-grovr tho burthens cast upon us by one shott administration f Mr. Poi.k Ins already proved how small a man may do great harm. Hut it will require a ddlWent man tn mend it. Again ant) again the inquiry is anxiously passed from one to another, whrn shall irs h ire peart ? and what kind of peace Will it be ? HilU. It is admitted (hit no article of mnu's outward adornment has a greater effect in producing an impression fa vo ruble or unfavorable upon thu beholder, than committed to jail on Ihe same day at J. tferson, mid which lie is wont to cap Ins corporeal climax Clevelnud and Coltimbua Ituilrond The subject of the following article in the Cleveland Herald was alluded toby us on yesterday. Since which wo have received tho request of a friend at Cleveland to publish tho article from the Herald, " that the people of Columbus may have a better understanding about our Rail Road matters than they now have." In compliance with this request, wo copy thu article in txtenso. From the Cleveland Herald. Mil. IlAnnis : Will you be so good a to re-insert the following article which I cut from your last evening's paper, in order that I may correct somoerrone. oils impressions that seem to e.xist in Columbus: "Cl.KVKI.ANII A XI) Coi.UMIIL'S ItAll.lloAlJ. 1 hlS iinportunt work, wlmsa requiem was " said or sung" with so little ceremony or preparation a few months since, and which was henceforward regarded as hav ing gme down to th" tomb of perpetual neglect if hot ot lorgetluluess, is now rising lioiu its oriel repose, apparently refreshed aud invigorated. The work is riot abandoned, as was thought but having passed into other hands, is progressing, under auspices which give good encouragement for lis vigorous prosecution to early and successful completion. Alfred Kelley is now the President of the company, and we observe by a notice in the Cleveland papers that contracts for thu grading and bridging ol so much of said wav as extends from a point about two miles south-west of Cleveland, to a point at or near the village of Rerea, will be assigned on thu y;td inst., at Cleveland. This embraces somo It) miles of the line. The Directors give notice that " it is expected that those to whom contracts are awarded, will commence their work im-diately after Ihe letting. " The company is now worth a dozen defunct corpo-rations; it will produce a work second to lew in the State in point of interest.' Columbus Journal. No " requiem was ever said or sung " over this pro ject. I'he Directors made all exertions within their power during the Inst winter and spring to place the company in such a financial position that the work might he cn in m en ced and carried on successfully, In their efforts lo reach this position they failed for the lime. Reside, the Pittsburgh road was a favorite with many of our citizens, and its friends believed if the Columbus road was either abandoned or suspended, even temporarily, Ihey could do something effective toward making that. If wo could not succeed with our ob ject we certainly were averse to being an obstacle ill tho way oi other similar project, ami we therefore i lelermiiieu to yield the held lor a lime, hut in our nuti- lishcd address we expressly stated that wu did not abandon our work, and hoped when more favorable i:ircuiiHtance might present, to resume and prosecute it successfully. This was in April last. In July nothing having been done here in relerencu to thu Pittsburgh road and thu country having been filled with money liy the unexampled demand aud value ut our agricultural production, and the importance of tins road being more than ever before apparent, il was deemed a favorable moment to re-commence exertions, and it was done with such success that the Director determined to begin tho work itself during the month of September. Another error. The work has not changed hands as Judge Thrall supposes. The stockholders are the same How as in April, with the addition of the recent subscribers. Tim Cleveland Directors are the same now as then with the exception of the lite Mr. Wed-dell and the addition of Mr. Case. In the place of a non-resident Director, Mr Alfred Kelley -was substituted. A large majority of Ihe Directors are therefore the same men now as in April. None of the Directors had practical knowledge in the construction and management of work of this tort, and Ihey all of them hud the good sense to know and admit thut there were other men umre competent than nny one of them to take ihe principal charge of the construction of the proposed road. I Mr. Kelley was n scientific man of great expert encr in the location and construction of canals, nnd in fact had spent the best pirt of hi life in carrying through to a most succesnfiSl conclusion the Ohio canal. The Directors believed if he could he induced to take the office of President and lo give his personal attention to Ihe mailer, his skill, judgment and high character at home and abroad would insure the most favorable results. Mr. Allen wrote him a very pressing letter lo take the place he held, and two of the Directors visile I him at Columbus, and Mr. K. finally consented to do so. His reluctance was not owing to any want of conlideuce iu the practicability or expediency of making tho road, but because he thought after laboring for the public !iU or lit) years of his life he had a right to the quiet use of the residue instead of having a new aud heavy burthen placed upon his shoulders, and we may all congratulate ourselves that his patriotism was more influential Willi him than his private interests aud wishes. A. For thn Ohio St.it Journal. "I had not thought to have unlocked mv lijis Li tin- iimIi tllowed air, hut tli.it ties juicier Obtruding lidso rule pranked Hi reason's g.irb.1'' " Thou Ii ml nor eyes, nor soul to apprehend The sublime notion nnd high mystery ." Hani tint qui mal y jimse, was the exclamation of the uotile minded l.dwanl, when lie stoopeu to nick up a lady's garter, amid the smiles of the guest, at a court revel. t nto the pure all things art purr, saith the trntiuaker. Rut lo ! in our day hath arisen another generation, whose sense of delicacy, ami knowledge of decorum lar excels lint of Britain's majesty or J mien's widom. . generation purr in thtir oirn eyes, priding itself upon its advance Iroin the polluting darkness ol olden time into the noontide of modern morality and purity, and yet one which cannot bear truth because ol her na kedness, in iclwtc st i' Itt the hearens art not clean. List en lu the oracle : From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Powers' Greek Nlnve. Attracted by the praises bestowed upon this beauti ful work of the chisel. 1 stepped in to gratify my cu riosity, and participate in the intellectual enjoyment proiuirtt-d hy so admirable a specimen of the noble art t statuary. IM course I was aware tint the figure appeared wholly unclothed by any drniM-ry, and in simple iiuuity. t. tit entering ine chainucr ol exhitn turn I found it filled with a goodly company of ladies and gentlemen, conversing in whispers, and gating m silent nuimr itimi uimn ihe unveiled ttiauty tie i nre us. Now, w hile I detest prudery, justly so called, I lould dot divest myself ol the teeliug ol the mdelica- :y of youthful spectators of both sexes guxing siiuul- tiiueously upon uuveih-tl charms, which from child hood 1 had been taught to consider unsuited toexiHi- sure to the common rye. . It seemed to me (in descend in mv illustration) that if it would be deemed highly indelicate to introduce into an assemblage of young persons id' both sexes a naked sleeping infant, although pure as the statue, it could not do otherwise thau tend to injure the lino delicate feelings ot a youllilut maid' n, to timi iierseii, in company with a young man, in Ihe presence ot a naked fc imile statue Now whether this feeling be dt leiuihle in the eye ot an artist or not. 1 hoite tlio ground ot it will rve distinguish American females, and I believe I may say I do know that very many, who would like to se the statue, will not do so unless m leutalo company alone. I do therefore hope tho curator will make an arrangement by which a day may lie set apart in each week, when a female may be in attendance and none but females bo admitted. And moreover I am sure it will provo a beneficial step to the owner in a pecuniary point of view. PU RITAS. lea, venly, it is a frown nl and perverse generation, Till. Comsii F.i.kitiov We fee nothing to pro vent entire harmony in the Whig ranks this full, and we know of no dislrncting inlluetires, whirl) ought to, or which can separate big from Whig in ihe ap prone hing contest. All personal predilection should tie laid aside, nnd after noiuinntioiis are made, the tick ct, nml the whole ticket should have every Whig vote. 'Phis spirit will secure a sweeping victory, and llie stability ot the much to he appmved W ing policy of the Slate. The bane In Whig success in I hose contests where only members of the Leginhilure nnd comity officers are lo he choneii, is apathy. 1 here inn I be organiza tion, and active ttorl iu every town nnd election district. Meet them shoulder lo nboiibler, and Ohio remains firmly Wing. Clmtund Hi raid. A Pi.rsAtT (iHifTiNii. An American, writing from California, says lie was greeted by nn old friend on his arrival there, with " Y"U d d fool ! did li t youknow better than to couie lo this (iod-fortaKcn country .'" on Friday (the Court being then m bcksiou.) was tented to three year imprisonment in Ihe Penitentiary. Lanntaut lit parti r, Sept. i!,l. Tur. TfcsT. A good old firmer came in town, a dny or two since, and ns he had heard much of the abominable W lug lax law, he concluded In would see how it was likely to tiffed him. He wu neither rich nor poor, and be supposed his case would lie a fair test, and on examination found Ins tax a Intlc less than heretofore. It is unuiTissnry tosny, hi unfavorable impression ot the law, whatever they hud been, were all reinovi d. S it would be, if every man would do hiimclf the kindness to examine httote hu decides Clermont Courier. They do things very summarily nnd effectually among Ihe Creek Indian. Very lately an Indian killed his cousin. He was raoIil, tro-d nnd sentenced. A grave was dug, in which operation ho assisted Actively, then seating himself by ihe side id' it, he gave the word "lire," to the two nppninted executioners, nnd the next moment fell dead into the grave. Tiik Won it ok im: HiimiA rlolhes-hrush hna been left al our otbec, ns n specimen of the work executed by Ihe inmates oi Ihe Stale Asylum for the Rlmd.nt Colon. bus. 1'poii the back of tins, is a brush of softer bristle, intruded lor the hat. They nre both unit d in one, and are remarkably well made. Cm- riHHiifi (ioittte. his hat. Our rentiers will see by referenro to his advertisement, thai III nMl.l. has just replenished his midnight mass where, during the ceremony, a nude sleeping infant ia introduced, aud exhibited to the gaze of "an assemblage of young persons of both sexes.' But the effect of such sights upon even the pure minded! That seems to alarm our friend mightily. " Could not do olherwiae than tend to injure the tine delicate feelings of a youthful maiden, to find herself in company with a young man in the presence of a naked female statue ;" especially the female statue. We presume the word is used advisedly. Rut n'l'm-porte., we are not so sure of this. If Ihe eight of nudity should produce the effect it did once upon tho " youthful maiden's " great drund-dame, Eve, it would only tend to additional clothing, much even to Ihe satisfaction of Puritas. He says he hopes that the ground of his feeling will ever distinguish American females. Allow us to hope otherwise; for wu respect and admire American females too much ever to suspect them of harboring such-feelings as we are convinced render Puritas' a moral sight so oblique ; and what is more, wo hazard the assertion that Puritas will not find a truly delicate American female to coincide with his views, but that nil inch will go if they can, and be mndo happier by looking upon tho "Greek Slave." We say happier, because il is n heavenly sight to see a woman triumphing even when she is in chains. Iu regard to the concluding hope and advico of Puritas, we hope that no such thing will be done ; and venture the remark, that should the artist learn of such an insult being offered to his conception as the one pmposed, ho would scorn the proposition of such "a beneficial step in a pecuniary point of view," as he did ihe offer of the munificent American traveller in Florence to give " two hundred dollars for that stone gal there;" for wc know him well enough to be as sured that he is none ol those who desire to elevato themselves by a traitorous servility to a fulso public sentiment which decks itself with the name of delicacy. LUSTRATOR. Tho subjoined article from the ' Literary World," published at New York, contains the first authorized announcement of a contemplated publication, hy the Smithsonian Institution, on .tmcriran jJrchwol- oay; and the render will learn Inun tins article the interesting character of the work which the Institution is about to present lo the public. American Arehuology, The Pint Publication of the Smithsonian Institution. Wo are glad to have it in our power to announce the first publication of the Smithsonian Institution. It will he remembered that Mr. nmiluson directed in his will, that his bequest should he devoted lo tho incrcuse and dissemination of knowledge. 1 1 is, therefore, incumbent on the Regents of the Institution endowed by tho liberality of Mr. Simthson to publish und disseminate useful knowledge, and particularly such as may lie an audition to our present stock, or the result of original research. Tlio accompanying letters and report will show that the first work to bo issued is one strictly in accordance with the wishes of the testator, inasmuch as it will impart facts relating to the early people of the American continent which are as new as they are interesting. We consider it a fortunate event, therefore, that the Regent of the Smithsonian Institution have secured the work in iUention, as none could be more appropriate. It will without doubt be well received, and hailed as a good beginning by the numerous readers into whose hands the volume may fall. This work, containing researches intolheorigin and purposes of the' Aboriginal monuments and remains ol the Mississippi Vulley, will embrace the details and result of extended surveys, carried on during several years by Mr. E. G. So,likk and Dr. E. 11. Davis, of Ohio. The labors of these gentlemen embrace tho opening and examination of more than two hundred mounds, of every variety and ciiuracter, iruui the greutesl lo the least. These works were not carelessly overthrown, hut laid open to their centre ; the relics, any existed, were removed, and the eariti again replaced. In these examination the number and variety of aboriginal relics which have been brought to light must excite astonishment in all. Their collection embraces many thousand objects, exhibiting the state if the art among the ancient people, oi whose exis. tence they ure the only uieinonuls. They consist of implements and ornament in silver, copper, lead, stone, ivory, and pottery, fashioned into u variety of forms, ami exhibiting a skill which, iu some instances, modern art cannot surpass. The sculpture of birds, annuals, and reptiles constitutes a large class of these ancient relic. They are cut from various kinds of stone, aud in many lostances.froiu porphyry. Several highly finished sculptures of the human head are ileservuig ol notice, aud proiiahiv convey an idea of the physical character of the people. A single skull, the only one out of many hundred discovered in trag- uls wluel) has tieen preserved entire, anu wnicii our explorers are satisfied belongs to the primitive people, i all wo have, aside iroin lliese, lo en able us to form an opinion of the race. In examining theso remain we discover articles which show the extent of their intercourse with other oaru of the country. '1 hu there nre instruments of uiuiaian, a voieauic Ruimancu oniy iouhu in me xico, native eopjH'r and lead from Luke Superior and the tpper Mississippi, marine shells and cetacean teeth from the sea, and number of pearls of great beauty. nut the mound ami tueir contents are but a small portion of interesting facts made known by thee gentlemen, for we consider the vast earth works the most remarkable. Their labors embrace surveys of more than one hundred works of tins description, some of them twelve nutes in extent; others are vsst enclo sures, covering a space equal to that occupied by tho cily of New York ; again, we see fortified places, in the construction ot which modern military science ght per flaps derive some useful hints. 'I'he work in question Will embrace the details of these most curious and interesting explorations, and will be illustrated by several hundred wood engravings in thu highest style of tho art. Theso will exhibit representations of the relics discovered, views of the mound, and other ancient remain, sections, plans, do. It will also contain seventy quarlo lithographic Ian, being tho surveys of other works alluded to, hud down on an accurate scale. What will lie the ex tent of the letter press wo are unable to say, but it will probably exceed five hundred quarto pnges. Such is a very brief accoiintot the discoveries winch (his work will make known. The facts adduced from them open a new era in our aboriginal history. Tho question will naturally arise, at what period and by whom were these works erected .' w hat lias becoino of tint people? Had they any connexion with the nation ot the other Hemisphere r 0.0. The relics and the works themselves) aid but little in determining thu period when they were made. When Ihe country was settled they were covered with large trees, exhibiting as great an ago as the forest around them. Rut there are other fact connected wiih their position which show that (real physical change have taken place since their creation. These nid us iu determining their antiquity, which imil be reckoned hy thousands of years rather than by centuries.M-iny amlogies are presented to our explorers in investigating Ihe antiquities and pnmitivr history of some ot the earlier nations of the Old World. The serpent and egir, which hna a prominent place in the mythology of Egypt and India, typifying a universal principle, has actually been found in Ohio, in a well defined scrHMit twelve hundred feet in length, formed of earth, m the art of swallowing an egg. Some sinking analogies with tho Druidical rites are also discovered. Thn Phallic worship, too, so universal throughout tho ancient world, may be traced in Ihe remains ol the Missisiippi Valley, as well as many uh'uces ns interesting as they nro remarkable and nuniytherebeUiere.il like unto MnM,who would ,)(,,MMll1(IIon ,Hlgu W(l wcoinpany lhB Wl,tl( have made a vast improvement in the first creation of iinn; who find ftuli with nature iu not clothing her handi work alter the fashion of " Adam's first green breeches," ud who hold the tailor in the highest rank of moral purifier, Did we not fear an accusation of treating Ihe subject too seriously, or were it Worthy of the respect of an argument, it could easily bo shown, that, m all such case of allcdged indelicacy ns the one of which Puritas so movingly murmurs, the mini of tho beholder instead of the artist, is the creator of all the immodest ideas. That many there are like our Pari-tus, so habited hy constitution or will, that as their We cannot closo our remark without speaking of the gentlemen who are engaged in Ihe work. Dr. I).ivi Inn for fifteen year lern a resident nf Chillico. the, during which lime he has been a closo observer, and lias collected ninny vnluahlo nlics from tho mound. Mr. Squier removed to the same place a few years since, when a more thorouuh system of survey and examination of tho earthworks wn commenced. A number of laborers were employed, and, when the weather permitted, these gentlemen were in the field with their spades, surveying instrument and sketch-hooks. For three years they have been incessantly ngiged in their work. From ix-rsonal acquaintance Ily Ti'lrnijili, for tilt? Ohio State Journal. PiTTsm huh, Sept. !W ,tj P. M Editor Ohio State Journal: The mail is in at Richmond, but brings no news from the spat of war. No arrival at New Orlenna from Mexico. At New Orleans the yellow fever was abating 14 deaths on the 'Jlst. PiTTsmiitQM, Sept. 2!) G P. M. Editor Ohio State Journal At Baltimore, Ilowordstrect Flour is held at ,Jt.r,r0 a5,rJ; Corn Meal $4,1)0; Primo White Wheat 1,33 al,,lT; Prime Red Wheat $ 1,00a 1 ,03; Prime While Corn COc.j Prime Yellow Corn (Wc ; Whiskey 27c; Prime Western Pork $(i,ri(lii7,00 ; ltacon, Western, Sides, tiaHjc; Rye Flour $4,00n4, PititADKLPiiu. Western Flour $5,75, and firm; Prime Ited Wheat $l,l2al,15 ; Prime White Corn, sales of 3,000 bushels at uVic, and an active demand ; Clover seed $4,oOa4tti; Mesa Pork, Western, No 1., $13,7r)al4,Utl. Pittsburgh, Sept. 2!) P. M. Genesee Flour $.7t$:aZt,H t and firm ; Prime Yellow Corn (Wc; Wheat is firm at last quotations; Pork has advanced. Mess Pork, western, No. 1, $!4,7o; Beef and Lard quiet. Pittsburgh, Sept. 30, f4 P. M. Philadelphia Market Moderate sales of flour at previous prices tlio market firm. The supply is small. Provisions are without change. Corn meal $'.,.11 J, Prime Red Wheat $l,13al,17. R a i.t l no tir. Howard Street Flour $!,fW4 Prime Red Wheat $1,1,34. The markets generally are without change in any particular. II iff man nit Cap t. John." The Cincinnati Enquirer of last Tuesday, edited by John Uiiouoii, contains the following account of an exploit by its said editor. It does indeed! We clip it bodily from thut same paper. Read and admire : From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Springfield Township Meeting. The Democracy of Springfield township field an nd- jourued meeting in the Free church at Alt. Pleasant, on Saturday, iioth inst. the meeting organized tiy appointing Joseph Jackson Chairman, and 0. U. Smith secretary. John Rrough and James II. Ewing, F.sqrs., were present, and were railed upon in address the meeting. Mr. Ewing confined Ins remarks principally to questions of a Jocnl character, and to some remarks which should be carried forward. Mr. Rrough spoke at great length upon the causes which led to the war, and to the satisfaction of his audience showed Senator Cor-win to be small potatoes (and diseased at that) in mat ters of politics. He concluded hy a thorough examination into the alia irs of our State finances, and effec tually showed up the ridiculous falsehoods of the Whig press, ana oiticiai reports oi the present Auuiior ot State, From the Cincinnati Catntta. Compromises; and Provisos. The Compromises of the Constitution thn Mis souri Compromise the Wilmot Proviso and the Rer rieu i'roviso one or all ut Ihcrte matters form an element in almost every conversation and public discus sion upon the war, the prospects and terms of peace, and the course ol tho administration at Washington. Let us keep iu mind the distinctions between theso propositions. The Compromises of the Constitution related to the adjustment of the powers granted In (he Federal Gov ernment, and those to be retained hy the Stales, and to the arrungeinent ot certain question relating to slavery such as the prohibition of Ihe slave trade, the settlement of tho political power lo be exercised by such Stales a claimed property in human beings held as slaves, and the reclniuntiou of such, in caxo they escaped from the State where they were held iu bondage, into another, tVc. Tho Missouri Compromise limited the continuance of slavery in that part of Louisiana lymgabove .Mi degrees and 31) minutes of north latitude, erept in the Mate of Missimri, as then formed. Sin very existed in Louisiana when it was ceded to us, and tins Proviso was designed to nholih slavery in thai part of the territory lying north of the above line. The Jeil'crson Proviso, in the draft of the Ordinnnre of 17" I, and the Dane clause in the. Ordinance of !7r-7, prohibited slavery in the north-western territory, which had been ceded to the United Slates by Virginia and other Stales, slave nnd free. The Herrien Proviso asserts that the war with Mexico ouht not to he prosecuted with any view to tho dismemberment of thai Republic, or to thr acquisition, by conquest, nf any portion of Imt territory. This opposition is silent as to the acquisition of Mexican territory, in any other way limn by conquest, and it in equally ient to the prohibition of slavery in tcrri-tory which may, in any way, be acquired by the United Slates. The Wilmot Proviso prohibit Slavery in ami territory which may hereafter be arquirtd by the L mttd Htntes in any tray whatever. This is right in the abstract, and in practice. Tfie question of Slavery in territory, to be acquired from Mexico, is a different question, from that prohibiting Slavery above 3(i" IM' north latitude. In the whole ol the bouiaiana territory Slavery existed when it was ceded to us, and a clause ol the treaty secured to the inhabitant protection for their property, and an ultimate admission into the Union upon the footing of the original Stales, the citizens of the new territory to enjoy the same protection and privileges, under tho United Stales, ns the citiieu of those States. This Proviso, therefore, limited and defined the tcrri rory within which Slavery should never thereafter be established and sustained, leaving the remainder of the territory where it stood under the treaty, before that Proviso was enacted. Such cannot be the nperntion of the Wilmot Proviso, in case it shall be applied to territory to becrdrd by Mexico, simply because slavery doe not now exist in Mexico, aud will not exist, when the territory is ceded to us, while it did exist in Louisiana when Wn obtained that terriiory. The Missouri Compromise limited and restricted the continuance of (tie institution of slavery in territory where the law then tolrr-ated it. The application of that Compromise to any Mexican territory, win open me way lor slavery where it docs not now exist, and sanction it establishment there. 1 In we believe is the first direct public t-llort. on the part of any party in the United States, to px- erl the power ol thu federal government lo acquire free territory, in order to convert it intu slave territory. It is our opinion, therefore, thut in I cad of making an issue upon Berrien's Proviso, against the eonynrst of territory, or against all acquisition of territory, in any way, we should makeup an issue upon true principles, containing all that is good in all the propositions. Against the acquisition of any territory, but in case any is acquired, in favor of declaring that in all such territory slarery shall nerer be introduced. Let il never be said of our (loyemmenl, the pioneer in the cause of freedom, our boasted model Republic, that we have exerted our war and pence power, to acquire free territory, in order to plant, nourish, and sustain within il the institution of slavery. This ia our deliberate judt'ineut, and we ask every free man, if tint is not the true doctrine i physical eve Inokiiiir thtouifh a niece of ireen gl i, I ..,!, i. Hniiit-r. Wn ilnnut li.ittif nil. fit nv llinl llu slock : and it is said thai his present assortment hua their mental sight can only view all object tinged by ,.orit,nu and survey of our ancient remains could not Pitt: ft tr wi.il. nt t r. Itisfctid Iherearennw but Iwo towns iu old Essex county, Massachusetts, that will not no accommodated with rndmniU passing thro them when all the lines in progress will be completed, Al the rate the Yankees are going ahead, these two uul-ut-tlie-way tuwus Will soon bo mlctsicUd, never been excelled in Ibis market, cither for quality, style, or Ihe reasonableness of his prices. Wu know thai Mr. Rrnsii i. is a judge in these matters. The Mansfield Wduiff slates that Cnpl Foiin, who wa out in the 3d Ohio Regiment, has received authority from Col. bun to rnisr a company of volunteer, which, as soon as organised nnd rqmp'ied, will repair to Mexico, and join the oth Ohio Regiment. tYuir query Win n Cnpl. Foun shall have raised a company, agreeably to the authority received Iroin Col. rin, will the (inventor of Ohm be ralhd onto furnish tranportali"ii and supplies? And if so, by what authority ? WiMtnusM. The mnjorily for Twi:riv, II n'g, for Delegate to Congress, is Kmo. Tluno were but two members ol Ihe Council to be elected. This body will stand 11 Lnmlbeoa to 2 Whig. The House of Representatives will probably aland Whigs H, Locos Hi. It stood (i and 'ill last year. J Mrs. Hi sin Ci was born near HilUborn, N. Carolina, aud removed Ihenco to lliigemtnwu, Maryland, where she resided till she grew lo Womanhood. From llngersiown she went to Kentucky, and waa there united to Mr. Clay. tj p (iov. Whihui's friend hnve had n county convention at Canton, at which they resolved to erect a monument over Ins grave. their peculnr thoughts and desires. J lilV(. t,,.n n betler hands. Combined with a iter J'Mriid .ays 1 detest prudery. I orreel, lor once. , (1.,rriin(,B m lll0 undertaking and enthusiasm for the Partly doc detest prudery, and doubtless pities - r , ,..!...,, .-llllll..aII,li ,ii.1i,t1i-,.11, .ml ,.. despmes linn who seems to have stolen her "'"'"'r veyor, an rvulriice of whii h may be seen in the splen-garb m order lo insult herself ami worshippers under . ,(), alJ nnf)lrTlMB ,,,rvi.VI and drawings with which " , .... r j his purtioiiu nro nihil lie could not "divest himself of a feeling ol llidel- . j Tw Wofk lhoV( f.,.,.,.,1 0 was submitted icney ol ynutiilul spectators oi oouim -.es gin. M.o.- ()J. 'rnO.tr Henry, the Secretary of ihe Institution, ulUiieou-dy " upon that lioble specimen ul sculpture, ,(( Mf A(rrl .l,-,., i'n.B,dent of Ihe Ethnolog- i oneis ureca ru.ivu. To those who have not beheld thn glowing emhod imeut of an arlisi a dream, we can only say tint Ihe emotion caused by a view of it upon any spirit but such as we are persuaded hermitr.es n Pantos' s ho. sum, is one of Ihe most profound awe. True, the fig ure is nude and is a woman. " Wo cannot clntlm the lady that stands hero In stony tellers tied. and uioltonlcss 1 lttt slay, lie nol diliirled." And what think you, lias that man in hi heart, who, guxing upon unveiled charm " chiseled in fro x n marble, experience the feelings of PiiriM I low much purer and loftier wa the exclamation of ihe unlettered child of Erin, when he first beheld the im modest Slave, St. fathrich ! and want I fire her!" Puiitas, in his detestation ol pruuery, say main would thi highly indelicate to introduce into an assemblage of young person of both sexes a naked sleeping infant." It certainly ihen is very indecorous for dame nniure lo send tlicut into the world, fur that is mirr a Urge assemblage of both sexes. We imagine ihmdcleslorot prudery would Im- awfully shock ed at witnessing n religion ceremony ot ihe iiomnn church as performed in Italy, uu Christmas Eve the ic.il Society, with a View lo a report on it character. It waa rnrelully examined by a committee consisting of Edward Robinson, 1. D.John R Hirtlett, Prof. W. W. Turner, Samuel (1. Morion, M. II., and Hon. Oenrge P. Marsh whose written report shows that it has intrinsic rlaims to the high distinction of being adopted ns ihe first volume of the Smithsonian Con-tribiition to Knowledge."' Comprising as il does an account of the most remarkable discoveries thai have t bern made auioiiir the Anlutuitie ot our cnnulry, it must he a most important contribution to the stock ol human knowledge. Aai.riiorR nr l.r avi:ttk. During the Revolu lionnry wur, (ien. Lafayette being in Baltimore, wn invited to a ball. He went as requested, hut instead of joininir in the amusement, n might be rxpected of a young Frenchman of twenty-two, he addressed the Inuie thus iadics, you are very Handsome; you d-iiico very pre Ily; your ball is very tine ; but my soldirrs h.ire no shirts " The appeal was irresistible ; the ball censed; the ladies went home and went to work, and the next diy a large liuinbfr of lurls wi re prepared by the )Hiret hand of Baltimore, lor tho gallant defenders of their country. Prospect f .ood Crop in Europe. from Ihe Liverpool Mail, ol .Sept. 4. The accounts received from all quarter respecting tie state of the crops nre most cheering, and the harvest prospects become daily brighter still. In England and Scotland the produce is likely to bo unusually abundant. In Ireland, although, in a few localities and ut a modified form, the pftium disease hna undoubtedly rc-appcureu, yet mere is nu inn whole not only no ground tor gloomy apprehension such as those by wincn, wiih mil too mucii reason, wo were ftgiUted at this time last year, but there is every evuletice of a bountiful supply for man and lieail, that supply, moreover, being to an extent which, although still lar below what is desirable, is yet great beyond precedent of gram, rather llinu thut of the comparatively precarious root which ban si long formed almost exclusively the su'leiiince uf the bulk of Irish (H-opiu. From Ihe continent of Europe nml from America we have equally gratifying aunnun m-ntsof lertihn . Al vnrious parts of ihe Eurom-an Continent the eroii are described as double, treble, or even qiudniph-, or even quadruple the average product ; and Iheabomi- dings ol plenty on the other side of Ihe Atlantic nety be inferred from the vast imports n Inch we have lately find of flour and other brcsdstutls. The potato disease prevail to some extent ; but (he diminution of the usual supply i not expected lobe more than one-fourth. It could not be expected to disappear all st once. In Scotland the yield of all kinds of grain so fur s can be ascertained, is very abundant much more so, indeed, than was expected a week or two before the harvest began. In various quarters (he idea of n re or less exit-move finlnre of the potato is very li unci-uusly held ; but the Olasulow Courier savs A regard the district around this city, if any ayuivlomx of failure have been obwrved at nll they nre of a trilling character." Tha Perth lonstitutianal observes "In ihi quarter the crop are mostly cut down, ami a gn at proportion secured in Admirable condition. There i s paiiiul taint amongst the pot a lor, hut to a very lim ill d extent. Turnips continue to look beautiful, and the crop wilHm abundant " The first roiiimiiuication by Telegraph from Cii, ciouati to LouihviIIc, wua transmitted on the evening of the 23d nisi. i